Lionello Lunesu wrote:
On 10-3-2010 10:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Lionello Lunesu wrote:
On 10-3-2010 8:35, Walter Bright wrote:
Lionello Lunesu wrote:
I'll be presenting the D Programming Language at the next monthly BLUG
meeting. It'll mostly be for people who haven't heard of D yet.
There'll
be a fair chunk of D1 in there, but I'm hoping to touch some of D2's
new
features as well.
Awesome!
(I'm fairly new to 'presenting stuff' in general, so all tips are
highly
welcomed.)
I've noticed that things seem to go better if the presenter tries to
engage the audience by asking them questions thereby inviting more of a
group discussion, as opposed to just reading the slides to them.
Good tip, thanks.
I'm wondering: should I do the 'scrolling HTML', in true D style? The
lazy part of me says yes :))
I suggest not. When you'll be more experienced you'll be able to make-do
even with the white board, but for now focus on preparing good slides
and rehearsing them.
Hmm, yes.
Walter's advice is good. Plus: make sure through rehearsing that your
material fits within the allotted time.
Well, I noticed that most other presentations I've attended did indeed
go over time and not by a small amount either. So, apparently it's very
hard to stay within a certain time? Or, once you're standing there and
'get in the zone' you forget about the time?
I think it's rather that when you're preparing your slides, and reading
them to yourself, you do it a lot faster than when you're actually doing
the presentation.
I try to use 2 minutes per slide as a rule of thumb.
-Lars
