jsCollaborativePresentation

I, Christopher Chedeau am currently a student at EPITA. It's a computer science school with is a high focus on C and C++. Many students feel that low-level C is the holy grail and web development, with its dynamic language Javascript, is only good for noobs. I am going to make a 1 hour conference in order to prove them wrong!

While I could go the standard way and write the slides myself, I believe that the spirit of the web is community. This is why I would like to start an experiment: Can we write together slides for a Javascript presentation?

Let me see!

The latest version of the presentation is available here:

• http://vjeux.github.com/jsCollaborativePresentation/

I will answer comments and questions on the Hacker News thread. I will update my Twitter @Vjeux with updates. If you have any question, [email protected] is my mail, gtalk and msn address.

What?

The public:

• 3rd-5th year students in a Computer Science school
• They know very well about programming (no need to explain loops)
• They know very well about C & C++

The content:

• Javascript, the language
• Show what sexy we can do in Javascript compared to C++
• The presentation is composed of many design pattern presentations. Pick one you like and make a slide or two!
• Examples of subjects: Continuation Passing Style, Memoization, Functional Programming, Method Chaining, Private Members ...

What this presentation is not about:

• HTML5 features (WebGl, Audio ...) and libraries in general. (You can use them as examples however).
• The bad parts: the goal is to promote Javascript :)
• CoffeeScript
• Learning how to program

How to contribute?

Let's say you want to add a slide about memoization:

• Fork the project
• Copy slides/hook.html to slides/memoization.html (Note: Change memoization by the name of your technique ...)
• Open index.html and add the file

  /* Add your slides here */
  include('slides/intro.html');
  include('slides/hook.html');
  // ...
  include('slides/memoization.html');

• See the presentation at http://**username**.github.com/jsCollaborativePresentation
• Edit slides/memoization.html to make it rock!
• Commit
• In your github project page, click the Pull Request link at the top right
• Fill a short description and submit

You are done! Just give me some minutes to merge it with the live repo :)

Final Remarks

• The name of all the contributors will appear in the last slide.
• I will make the talk during September and record it. It will be in French. (I wish I could present it in English during the jsConf.eu!)
• I'm pretty sure some people will ask what license the presentation is ... I have no idea, please suggest one :)
• I reserve the right to forge the final presentation as I wish. Sorry in advance if your slides are edited / not taken.

Tools that power the presentation

• DeckJS
• jQuery
• Modernizr