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

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

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