April 13th: Presenting D at the Beijing Linux User Group

[Lionello Lunesu]

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 don't have a watch, but it seems that I might need one then.

L.