Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer From : Roedy Green Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 10:11 am On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:01:37 GMT, "jan V" wrote or quoted : >The students were professionals though, and their employers paid lots >of money for these courses. I suspect your success came DESPITE the slides because you did the other stuff so well and because you had highly motivated students. People who hate presenting rely on slides and natural hams tend to use them sparingly. All the most boring presentations I have seen in my life had slides. The best had none. Perhaps for me is a form of Pavlovian conditioning when I see a slide. I have lived through repeated IBM mainframe sales pitches delivered in the 1970s delivered by slide in a special drone the salesmen learned at IBM sales school. Cringe! Then there was Terence McKenna's (a expert on South American psychedelic plants) slide presentation --- anything but boring, but definitely distracting. The presentations where slides worked were where the lecturer was trying to show you something -- e.g. environmental damage, or the effects of poor dental hygiene in the HIV+ patients. It works far less well to just display some text no matter what sort of gewjaws you decorate it with. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. .