Re: Presentation Ideas

[Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:29:36AM -0400, John Dlugosz wrote:
>
>> I'm going to be giving a presentation on git to other development teams.
>> Is there any good material around I can borrow from or use as
>> inspiration?
>
> There seem to be two popular ways to present git, and which you prefer
> to see seems to be a matter of personal learning style. They are:
>
>  1. top-down; i.e., explaining commands in terms of workflow and
>     accomplishing user-oriented tasks, and trying to minimize details
>     unnecessary to the task at hand
>
>  2. bottom-up; i.e., explaining the data structures of git first, upon
>     which you can explain the behavior of commands, out of which you
>     can see how to piece together tasks.
>
> I prefer (2) myself. It's a steeper learning curve, but I think it pays
> off when advanced topics in git just make sense (but then, I also think
> that normal users should understand sed and awk).
>
> If you are interested in (2), I have often seen this page referenced:
>
>  http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
>
> I also did a presentation of git to some CS grad students that was very
> bottom-up. The slides are somewhat mediocre, but I would be happy to
> share them if you like.
>
> I think I stole a few diagrams from Junio's OLS talk, which has some
> nice images (I especially like the symbolic view of the 3-way merge):
>
>  http://members.cox.net/junkio/200607-ols.pdf
>
> -Peff
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I have put a number of my presentations online at

http://github.com/schacon/git-presentations

There are four in there now, but I'll add the one I'm giving at
RailsConf in a few weeks once it's completed.  Most are high level or
top-down, the railsconf08 is more bottom-up.

Scott