As someone who is relatively new to web development (going on my fourth year), I've been in a somewhat new process of getting as much esoteric knowledge of JavaScript as I can get my hands on. Your presentation was very informative and contained just the right balance of solid teaching with juicy tidbits that people often enjoy (like what letters variables should start with, because of parser performance). I think Jared's suggestions were great. If you ever go to a higher altitude than the average developer flies at, you're bound to get some complaints that you were too pedantic or complicated, some people are just not going to understand the material, and that's okay. I think you came off great, and completely non-paternalistic. Asking if there were people in the crowd, representing the different JavaScript communities you talked about (Node, Rhino, et al) was a good idea. Keep up the good work. -Nate
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Jared Hirsch <[email protected]>wrote: > Haha, me too. Loved the slides. > > The real question is who the audience is (vs your imagined target > audience), and what their goals are in seeing a talk with the title > "JS engines: under the hood." > > Maybe do a show of hands next time, asking who in the audience has > done lisp metaprogramming or AST wrangling or has a background in > formal CS, and you can gloss over some stuff as appropriate. > > Also never hurts to ask how people are doing after a couple hard > slides. Something like backchannel might help you tune as you go. > > Alternatively, maybe you can put a little CS warning icon next to the > talk description to alert people who wouldn't enjoy such stuff. > > When are you giving this talk next? Let us know how it goes :-) > > Jared > > On Friday, March 11, 2011, Peter van der Zee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fwiw, i liked the covered topics. But it seems a bit of a lonely world in > that respect ;) > > On 11 Mar 2011 17:57, "Ariya Hidayat" <[email protected]> wrote:> > Folks, > >> > >> At the last SenchaCon 2010, I gave 10,000 foot overview talk on how > >> JavaScript engine works. The recorded video is > >> http://www.vimeo.com/18783283, with the slide deck: > >> http://www.slideshare.net/senchainc/javascript-engines-under-the-hood. > >> > >> The presentation was rated as "too complicated". If you have > >> 45-minutes of your spare time, watch the video, and give me some > >> feedback, I'll be very grateful! > >> > >> Feel free to throw some ideas about what should be covered > >> more/in-depth, if you are supposed to follow the similar talk in the > >> future. > >> > >> > >> Thank you! > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Ariya Hidayat > >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ariyahidayat > >> > >> -- > >> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >> > >> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >> > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- Nathan Sweet Web Developer 206.588.6137 nathansweet.me -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
