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How do I explain a “Hello World” program for beginners?
I am going to give some beginners a presentation about writing first program in Java. This program will be about printing "hello world". I'm not sure how can I explain the concepts such as main method ...
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How can I give a good presentation to important, non-technical stakeholders?
At the end of the month, I have to give a presentation on a software project that I've been working on by myself that will basically decide whether or not I will get a full-time job at the company I'm ...
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How do you make slides for programming talks?
I've given a few talks recently and I have not found a good way to make slides.
Here are a few desirable characteristics for programming slides:
They're slides. A standard emacs buffer won't do it.
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What are best practices when giving a presentation to programmers?
I've watched 50 plus presentations on programming topics, although most have been online; example, Google Tech Talks -- and have ad-hoc experience on what formats work for programmers, or practices to ...
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Videos on Unit Testing
I've been searching for good presentations (slides+audio or video preferred) on Unit Testing but all I seem to find are books and blog posts. The presentation should not be longer than 50 minutes ...
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Giving a presentation on “code style and design patterns”
My company (small, about 40 people across 3 offices) occasionally does "developer workshops" online where one of the devs hosts a presentation about some tech topic. It's not necessarily about our ...
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How can I present some printed Visual Basic source code in an aesthetically pleasing manner?
Right now I'm interning at a major engineering company. I'll be leaving in a few months though, so my project manager has requested a print out of my source code for a VBA project I've been working ...
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Holding a presentation about what you've done
I have to give a presentation next week to my supervisor and my teacher about the activities I have performed during my internship.
I've never been good at presentations and become nervous really ...
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Is the separation of program logic and presentation layer going too far?
In a Drupal programming guide, I noticed this sentence:
The theme hook receives the total number of votes and the number of votes for just that item, but the template wants to display a ...
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How to explain the history of programming to non-programmers?
Sorry if this question is not appropriate for this stack exchange site, I've never used this one before.
I am doing my senior project on computer programming. I'm going to be presenting the project ...
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Software/Tool used in some presentations (TechEd, PluralSight, etc)
Does anybody know what application is used in some presentations in TechEd, PluralSight, etc?
It looks like the following:
but it also allows drawing arrows to emphasize on something, rectangles, ...
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What are some tips for avoiding 'Death by PowerPoint' during a technical presentation?
What are some tips for keeping users interested in a technical presentation?
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What Haskell interesting topics, tips, and examples I should not miss on my presentation?
I have to make a presentation about Haskell, and I'm looking for interesting Haskell examples, tips, and topics in general I should not miss in my presentation.
The purpose of the presentation is to ...
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Simple questions to test understanding of Dependency Inversion Principle
I am preparing a short (1-2 hour) presentation about DIP to several (~5) junior developers (1-3 yr xp) in the office. At the end of the presentation I want to know whether they understood what I was ...
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How to motivate team for knowledge sharing sessions
I work in a team with wide range of expertise and experience. I have been trying to introduce weekly knowledge sharing sessions. Sessions of 30-60 min length where everybody gets a chance to present ...
