Re: [Pythoncard-users] presentation ideas?

[Steve C. <stn...@xm...>]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Andy and Alex for the advice. 

If people are interested... you can get a first draft of my presentation
from :
    http://www.xmission.com/~stnchris/tmp/IntroducingPythonCard_v1.pdf

Any areas where I should go into more depth? Less depth? 

Should I touch on the other provided tools, e.g. findFiles/codeEditor (I
tend to use Vim for everything, so I'm not that familiar with
codeEditor).

Should I stick to one example program rather than the 2.5 I'm using?
(The .5 coming from my project which I wanted to show as a more
'complete' application rather than a demo. I didn't want to go into
too much detail... it seems like it could derail the conversation away
from PythonCard into the other libraries/frameworks used) 


-Steve