Re: [Pythoncard-users] presentation ideas?

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Andy Todd wrote:

> Steve Christensen wrote:
>
>> On our local python user's group mailing list, I shot my mouth off that
>> PythonCard was great (which it definitely is). Now I've been asked to do
>> a presentation. Curses!
>>
>> I was thinking of covering the following:
>>
>> * a walk-through of the tutorials (this might drop off, since it'd be 
>> duplicating the stuff discussed in the tutorials)
>>
>> * a comparison between a simple application written in PythonCard vs.
>> straight wxPython.
>>
Remember it's as much the difference in process as the difference in the 
resulting code that matters.

>> * a brief list of 'why choose pythoncard' (hit some of the highpoints of
>> the recent 'who is pythoncard's intended audience' thread).
>> * a brief example of directly using wxPython inside a PythonCard
>> application (anyone have a link to a straightforward example?).
>>
One aspect of that is using sizers - part of wxPython but not Pythoncard 
- a good simple example is the FindFiles utility.

I'd also mention the ability to customize the built-in components if 
needed - see the recent example on multicolumn lists.

>
> Whenever I've done this kind of thing I've found that interactive 
> demos are the best way to show PythonCard's strengths. Stick to one of 
> the early walkthroughs by Dan Shafer with detours into the tools 
> (resource editor, code editor and runtime shell) and you will soon 
> find that time flies.
>
> If you wan't some great material this document by Patrick O'Brien from 
> 2002 is a great resource;
>
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/07/18/pycrust.html
>
I'd agree 100% with that. Do not underestimate how much of your allotted 
time it will take to get through even a simple example, given a couple 
of questions as you go; demonstrations to a mixed audience need to be 
much slower than if you were just doing it for yourself.

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