My video serves one purpose; your video serves another. If I wanted to serve your purpose, then yes, I'd make your video.
As to the sound track, the truth is, you can't choose one that appeals to everyone. Musical tastes vary. I have no doubt that regardless of my choice, somebody will always have an issue with it. Richard O'Keefe wrote > This is meant to be constructive, but won't seem that way at first. > > (1) The sound track very nearly drove me away in the first few seconds. > I'm deadly serious about that. I'm not on the spectrum, but my elder > daughter is, and sensory sensitivities are very common amongst ASD > people. I'm rather sensitive to noise myself. Now if the sound track > were *relevant* to the message, I'd put up with it, but I can't for the > life of me see any connection between the sound track banging away > and what's happening on the screen. > > (2) Above all, it was a *missed opportunity*. Here was the chance to > add a narration telling us what we are seeing and what it all *means*. > Something not unlike Code Bullet, maybe? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSW-5m8lRMs > > (3) I don't give a tinker's curse for the score. It's just a number > without > any context. The scores for *all* the teams might be more interesting. > The numbers that really matter are TIME, EFFORT, and SIZE. How > long did it take each team? How much code did they end up with? How > much were they able to re-use? How many false starts had to be thrown > away? > > (4) The other missed opportunity was the chance to show some of the > Pharo IDE in action. Click on a cell, bring up the halo, explore the > data structure, show some code, jump around in it. > > As it is, this clip shows me > - unknown code > - solving an unfamiliar problem > - written by people I know nothing about > - using unknown tools > - with no evidence that Smalltalk helped in any way. > > If I were a Blub programmer, I'd probably ignore this > completely. At best, I'd look for the problem specification, > then say "who cares, I can do that easily in Blub". > > If you want to show that Smalltalk is the best thing since > sliced cheese, you have to show that *Smalltalk* is relevant > in some way. > > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 03:53, Richard Kenneth Eng > < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNyu-3Y2arg >> >> This time, the teams must deal with Jump cells, Warp cells, and Death >> cells. If you land on a Death cell, you die and the simulation >> terminates. >> >> Next week is the most exciting round yet. Multiple teams will be >> competing on the same board! This will look so damn cool on YouTube. >> >> Richard -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
