The Subtle Art of Giving Code Walkthrough Talks

A presentation at DevRelCon 2021 in November 2021 in by Ricardo Ferreira

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The Subtle art of giving Code Walkthrough talks Ricardo Ferreira Principal Developer Advocate Elastic @riferrei

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it will be memorable, right? Why worry about live demos? @riferrei My talk will be a live demo. Right?

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@riferrei Zero slides, and talk is tomorrow

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Can you see my slides? @riferrei

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What? • Behavioral aspects of live demos • Fixing classic live demo mistakes • Keeping the attention span high @riferrei

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not about you. It is about them. @riferrei

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I am awesome. @riferrei

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You’re my boy, blue @riferrei

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show that you enjoy what you’re doing @riferrei

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Don’t ”terminate” yourself @riferrei

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Pausing is key @riferrei

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YEah but… @riferrei

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Start with a repo @riferrei

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Git clone <repo Name> @riferrei

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Break your code into a narrative @riferrei

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@riferrei

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Create a partially finished branch @riferrei

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Git diff livestream .. main @riferrei

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Mistakes are fine. I mean it. @riferrei

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Bueller? @riferrei

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Easy on your programming language gimmicks @riferrei

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”This reads the movies file” @riferrei

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Don’t be all about your favorite ide @riferrei

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Right click here and… @riferrei

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Keep the tech list to a minimum @riferrei

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“I just want dinner 😰” @riferrei

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Explain the non-obvious details @riferrei

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➡ kubectl apply -f @riferrei

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Provide resources, not Call-to-action @riferrei

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@riferrei

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Thank You @riferrei