I think your tutorial will provide a good base for a presentation!
There are a couple of talks available to look at:
extra/chicago-talk
extra/galois-talk
extra/google-tech-talk
extra/jvm-summit-talk
extra/minneapolis-talk
extra/otug-talk
extra/tc-lisp-talk
extra/vpri-talk
And a few more on github:
https://github.com/slavapestov/emerging-langs-talk
https://github.com/slavapestov/boston-lisp-talk
Probably some of those are a little stale, but it might give you some ideas.
It's not particular unique, but I've always liked to highlight the "visual
REPL", and Google Charts makes a good example of that:
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/09/visual-repl.html
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-charts.html
Using an inline assembly DSL:
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/11/estimating-cpu-speed.html
People sometimes have some difficulty with concatenative syntax in the
beginnings, so (while not recommended for all code) it's nice to show
examples of using locals to implement something, like this:
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2014/06/quicksort.html
Here's an example where #concatenative helped me improve on too many stack
shuffle words:
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/05/evenly-partition-integer.html
There are a lot of libraries available in the tree, but I would imagine you
want to highlight the language more than the available libraries. It might
be neat to walk through implementing something "in real time", or at least
go through slides showing the development of something from scratch.
Progressive optimization, finally using SIMD for speeeeed:
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2011/11/wc-l.html
Anyway, other stuff might be network servers, here's a super simple telnet
server in a couple lines of code:
https://github.com/mrjbq7/re-factor/blob/master/telnet-server/telnet-server.factor
And a paper presented at DLS 2010:
http://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf
Anyway, good luck! Let us know how it goes!
Best,
John.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Andrea Ferretti <ferrettiand...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be giving an introductory talk about Factor at the LambdaCon in
> Bologna (Italy)
>
> http://www.lambdacon.org/
>
> Of course, I a not a Factor expert in any way, but I will make it
> clear and try to show the potentialities of Factor. I was thinking of
> following more or less parts of my tutorial
>
> http://andreaferretti.github.io/factor-tutorial/
>
> with some variations - a nice one would be the implementation of K-means
> here
>
>
> https://github.com/andreaferretti/kmeans/blob/master/factor/kmeans/kmeans.factor
>
> that I find quite neat :-)
>
> I was also planning to let people download Factor and follow
> interactively, which should be quite possible since Factor is rather
> succinct.
>
> I would like to gather some advice from more experienced factorers:
> what topics to choose? Do you have any experience in presenting Factor
> to a general audience? Any things that may appeal and capture the
> audience attention?
>
>
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