Presentation Ideas

Presentation Ideas

[John Dlugosz]

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?

--John

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Re: Presentation Ideas

[Rostislav Svoboda]

> 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?

Just show them the two videos from http://git-scm.com/documentation
The one with Linus is really ... :) well let's call it 'entertaining'

Bost :)

Re: Presentation Ideas

[Jeff King]

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

RE: Presentation Ideas

[John Dlugosz]

I think my audience needs to be shown what git can do for them, and why they should want to use it, as opposed to how to drive it or how it works under the hood.

Thanks for the links.

--John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:41 PM
> To: John Dlugosz
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Presentation Ideas
> 
> 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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Re: Presentation Ideas

[Scott Chacon]

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