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Hi everyone! I'm a researcher teaching programming, and currently puzzling out why so many academics give awful presentations. #introductions
@jory while is was in uni it was mostly down to all the code being in visual basic....
@vorticalbox Did you find VB easy to learn? It was enough different from others I'd already learned that it was hard for me. Similar experience to learning R.
@jory I didn't use it. We were allowed to use any language we liked luckily. I went for c#.
@vorticalbox Good choice for employment :)
@jory I actually ended up getting a job using node
@vorticalbox For the last few years my favorite language for everything is nim.
@jory I've not heard of nin, I'll have to have a look.
Related - check out Claus Wilke's slides on giving good presentations. It's not obvious, but many of his insights come from understanding human cognition and behavior: https://www.slideshare.net/ClausWilke/giving-effective-presentations-oct-2016
I just went to 3 conferences in the last 6 weeks and many of the presenters ignored the basics.