Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.029 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; '(even': 0.05; 'context': 0.05; 'python': 0.09; 'sep': 0.09; 'weeks,': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'assume': 0.11; 'do,': 0.15; 'example).': 0.16; 'received:mac.com': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'duplicate': 0.17; 'received:10.0.1': 0.17; 'trying': 0.21; 'decorators': 0.22; 'example': 0.23; 'cc:2**1': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; "i'm": 0.29; 'doubt': 0.33; 'received:10.0': 0.33; '(with': 0.33; 'weeks': 0.33; 'list': 0.35; 'fail': 0.35; 'received:17': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'next': 0.35; 'explain': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'anything': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'detail': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'nothing': 0.38; 'talk': 0.38; 'received:10': 0.38; 'sure': 0.38; 'several': 0.39; 'notice': 0.39; 'your': 0.60; 'more': 0.63; 'show': 0.63; 'member,': 0.66; 'home': 0.66; 'biggest': 0.71; 'audience': 0.71; 'saw': 0.75; 'andrea': 0.84; 'approach.': 0.91; 'frustrating': 0.91; 'url:fr': 0.95 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.7.7855,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-09-13_07:2012-09-13, 2012-09-13, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1203120001 definitions=main-1209130182 Subject: Re: Python presentations From: "William R. Wing (Bill Wing)" In-reply-to: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:16:17 -0400 References: To: andrea crotti X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1486) Cc: python-list , "William R. Wing \(Bill Wing\)" X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1347556588 news.xs4all.nl 6892 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44611 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:29055 On Sep 13, 2012, at 12:00 PM, andrea crotti wrote: > I have to give a couple of Python presentations in the next weeks, and > I'm still thinking what is the best approach. > > In one presentation for example I will present decorators and context > managers, and my biggest doubt is how much I should show and explain in > slides and how much in an interactive way (with ipython for example). [byte] Speaking from experience as both a presenter and an audience member, please be sure that anything you demo interactively you include in your slide deck (even if only as an addendum). I assume your audience will have access to the deck after your talk (on-line or via hand-outs), and you want them to be able to go home and try it out for themselves. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to duplicate something you saw a speaker do, and fail because of some detail you didn't notice at the time of the talk. A good example is one that was discussed on the matplotlib-users list several weeks ago: http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/ -Bill