From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-06-19T18:44:35+09:00 Subject: Re: Presentation on Ruby, require suggestions On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > Hello, > > My company has a policy which requires that at least one person > present a topic every week. The topic is unspecified and can range > from anything to salmon fishing in Newfoundland to The Beatles' LSD > experience. This is a marvelous idea, we once implemented it informally amongst colleagues taking lunch together. > I want to present Ruby. While a large section of the > audience consists of developers, the audience will also consist of non > technical people from depts such as HR, Accounting etc. I have to gear > my presentation so as to not alienate any single group and make it > interesting all the same. > > Can you guys provide suggestions? As of now this is what I have. It is > meant to be an hour's worth of presentation. I figured I'll have 10 > slides, 6 minutes on each slide along with code snippets. I also have > written solutions for several problems that some of the people in > accounting/hr face. The purpose of my demonstration is to prove that > Ruby, even for non programmers, can be used to solve small scale > problems in their lives. The approach seems ok but maybe you can be more interactive, let people play with irb or even on the net interface. If I guess the intentions of your company correctly, the most important thing is to transport your enthusiasm so be sure to really love what you will be doing. HTH Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Les mêmes questions qu'on se pose On part vers où et vers qui Et comme indice pas grand-chose Des roses et des orties. - Francis Cabrel