You second presentation for the class is your team tech talk.
This is a 20 minute presentation of some topic that
is related to software development, has some currency,
and will leave many (if not most) of us with some new
useful information.
Here are the guidelines to use as you prepare the presentation.
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Every team member should participate in the preparation of the presentation
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Every team member should participate in the delivery of the presentation.
It is long enough that switching presenters is not a problem.
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The presentation, including time for a few questions, should be 20 minutes long.
Practice your presentation to make sure you are not way long or way short.
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Include some active materials. Many of you will be discussing tools and techniques
for accomplishing some aspect of software development. Show us how they work
rather than just talking about how they work.
Develop a small piece of software so we can see the tool or technique in action.
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"Live coding" of some demo is fine but you should practice it to
make sure it will work as planned and will go smoothly.
Don't spend your time typing line by line... rather,
demo your topic by having prepared code that can be
displayed, discussed, and then run or applied.
We will not try to work along with you... this usually fails to function
properly for some non-trivial portion of the audience.
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However...
Your presentation should be tutorial in nature for the demo portion.
In this way, any viewers who wish to "follow along" and repeat the
demo construction can do so from your presentation... later... at
as slow a pace as needed.
This means you may need specifically a portion of the "presentation" that
is not presented, but it perhaps more detailed... making it possible for a
reader to repeat your in-class demo.
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Have your presentation is a form like PPT that you can link into your
project website for later viewing (re-viewing).
Attendance at Tech Talks is required.
We will honor the hard work of the people who
listened to your talk by being in class to
listen to theirs.