[Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" this week

[Björn Helgason]

5 minute presentations are among the hardest to do.

I think you have a great presentation and you should stick to it.

What you can do is have alternative material to hand out to those
interested.



2010/11/15 Devon McCormick <devonmcc at gmail.com>

> The organizer says he'll have either a Mac or an Ubuntu laptop available,
> so
> that would make it difficult to plan to do any kind of live demo.  Also,
> there are supposed to be something like 17 presenters, so time constraints
> are tight and mandate use of the one laptop.
>
> I probably have 15 minutes worth of "hello, world" variations, but I like
> the way I've done it because the problem is so trivial that it really
> should
> be put in its place.
>
> My intention is to emphasize the power and ease-of-use of J, how it lets me
> get things done quickly.  I'd also like to motivate people to try it by
> showing how easy it is to get results, hence the graphs, and the potential
> power of being able to write something as advanced as a solver in a single
> line.
>
> Finally, I'd like to address the point Ian Clark mentioned about APL, that
> its daunting aspect evokes reactions against it, by pointing to how the
> underlying simplicity helps harness considerable power.  Maybe this will
> motivate people to spend enough time on J to get past the initial
> awkwardness and befuddlement that many people seem to feel.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions but the main problem is delivering a
> coherent
> message in five minutes - I have enough small, interesting examples to fill
> an hour.  Maybe if I can get enough curiosity aroused, I'll get a lengthier
> forum.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:00 PM, <neitzel at gaertner.de> wrote:
>
> > > going to present at the Language Slapdown (
> > > http://www.meetup.com/Language-Slapdown/) on Wednesday.
> > > Please feel free to >take a look and comment.
> >
> > Are you really forced to use static slides?
> >
> > ...
>
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