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!
>
> In addition to Kevin's "Keeping it simple with PythonCard" ... what
> would _you_ like to see in a presentation? I don't feel like I can
> speak with much authority about the internals or in-depth comparisons to
> other tools; it will be much more focused on the user's perspective.
>
> The target audience is a Python UG, with varying levels of expertise.
>
>
> 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.
>
> * 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?).
>
>
> -Steve
>
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
Regards,
Andy
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