What I did when I needed to give a shorter talk was to base it on some of the well known presentations and just cut out a lot. I don't think Stuart's intro or Rich's "for Java people" talk assumes people are already enthusiastic about functional programming.
[1] http://github.com/stuarthalloway/clojure-presentations/ or those attached to the file section On Apr 21, 8:14 am, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've consulted a lot of already made presentations of clojure. > They are great, but I guess they may not suit my needs because it > seems to me that either: > * they are more 1 1/2 to 2 hours talks than 45 minutes > * they assume the "public" will not be relunctant to some terms like > "Lisp", "Functional Programming" and directly present these as > advantages > > My goal is to raise interest into clojure in the mind of a public of > people having used java for a long time. They may have Scala already > in their "radar", but not clojure, or may have seen it and immediately > dismissed it for what seemed to them good reasons (mainly aversion for > lisp syntax), though we all know this is not true after the "normal" > adaptation period. > > Say this presentation could be the presentation that leads people, at > its end, asking you for giving all those great other presentations > already available that I mentioned before ... > > Any references I missed that already solve my problem ? :-) > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Laurent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
