Thanks for the "food for thought". I'm concerned with the short introduction not being too much "goal oriented" (and more "tutorial oriented"), I'll continue think about it in "background mode".
Cheers, -- Laurent 2010/4/23 cburroughs <chris.burrou...@gmail.com>: > What I did when I needed to give a shorter talk was to base it on some > of the well known presentations and just cut out a lot. I don't think > Stuart's intro or Rich's "for Java people" talk assumes people are > already enthusiastic about functional programming. > > [1] http://github.com/stuarthalloway/clojure-presentations/ or those > attached to the file section > > On Apr 21, 8:14 am, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've consulted a lot of already made presentations of clojure. >> They are great, but I guess they may not suit my needs because it >> seems to me that either: >> * they are more 1 1/2 to 2 hours talks than 45 minutes >> * they assume the "public" will not be relunctant to some terms like >> "Lisp", "Functional Programming" and directly present these as >> advantages >> >> My goal is to raise interest into clojure in the mind of a public of >> people having used java for a long time. They may have Scala already >> in their "radar", but not clojure, or may have seen it and immediately >> dismissed it for what seemed to them good reasons (mainly aversion for >> lisp syntax), though we all know this is not true after the "normal" >> adaptation period. >> >> Say this presentation could be the presentation that leads people, at >> its end, asking you for giving all those great other presentations >> already available that I mentioned before ... >> >> Any references I missed that already solve my problem ? :-) >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -- >> Laurent >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
