Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Campbell
I'd like to resurrect this thread, because I have the exact same requirement Laurent had and I'm hoping there's been some additional progress in this area. I'm set to give a Clojure presentation to our company's Java developers, and I'm looking for a way to excite the audience about FP concepts in

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-23 Thread Laurent PETIT
Thanks for the "food for thought". I'm concerned with the short introduction not being too much "goal oriented" (and more "tutorial oriented"), I'll continue think about it in "background mode". Cheers, -- Laurent 2010/4/23 cburroughs : > What I did when I needed to give a shorter talk was to b

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-23 Thread cburroughs
What I did when I needed to give a shorter talk was to base it on some of the well known presentations and just cut out a lot. I don't think Stuart's intro or Rich's "for Java people" talk assumes people are already enthusiastic about functional programming. [1] http://github.com/stuarthalloway/cl

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-22 Thread Laurent PETIT
2010/4/23 Luc Préfontaine : > Is there a Dutch version of Clojure ?!?!?! I want one in French then : > (Laurent you just said you like to be bashed  didn't you ? :))) Well, I still think there could be value in creating examples with good vars, args, etc. names. So I propose the following add

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-22 Thread Luc Préfontaine
Is there a Dutch version of Clojure ?!?!?! I want one in French then : (Laurent you just said you like to be bashed didn't you ? :))) Luc On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:09 +0200, Laurent PETIT wrote: > Could I still take a look at it, to see the kind of examples you > provided (are the source cod

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-22 Thread Laurent PETIT
Could I still take a look at it, to see the kind of examples you provided (are the source code examples in english ?) 2010/4/22 Laurent PETIT : > 2010/4/22 Joop Kiefte : >> I made one simple and short one for beginners, I think to your liking, but >> in Dutch... > > too bad I don't speak Dutch :-(

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-22 Thread Laurent PETIT
2010/4/22 Joop Kiefte : > I made one simple and short one for beginners, I think to your liking, but > in Dutch... too bad I don't speak Dutch :-( > > 2010/4/22 Laurent PETIT >> >> Oh, really no answer ? :'( >> >> 2010/4/21 Laurent PETIT : >> > Hello, >> > >> > I've consulted a lot of already ma

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-22 Thread Joop Kiefte
I made one simple and short one for beginners, I think to your liking, but in Dutch... 2010/4/22 Laurent PETIT > Oh, really no answer ? :'( > > 2010/4/21 Laurent PETIT : > > Hello, > > > > I've consulted a lot of already made presentations of clojure. > > They are great, but I guess they may not

Re: Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-22 Thread Laurent PETIT
Oh, really no answer ? :'( 2010/4/21 Laurent PETIT : > Hello, > > I've consulted a lot of already made presentations of clojure. > They are great, but I guess they may not suit my needs because it > seems to me that either: >  * they are more 1 1/2 to 2 hours talks than 45 minutes >  * they assume

Slides for short (45 minutes) presentation of clojure for java devs

2010-04-21 Thread Laurent PETIT
Hello, I've consulted a lot of already made presentations of clojure. They are great, but I guess they may not suit my needs because it seems to me that either: * they are more 1 1/2 to 2 hours talks than 45 minutes * they assume the "public" will not be relunctant to some terms like "Lisp", "