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by theyCallMeSwift
3875 days ago
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I disagree with the idea that live coding demos are universally bad. In cases where they are practiced and calculated, they actually convert better than slides. I don't have any hard numbers on hand to back that up, but I worked as a developer evangelist for SendGrid for a couple years and I've probably spent too much time thinking about and attending Hackathons, so I feel ok speaking from experience. At any given Hackathon getting 10% of teams to use your product or API is impressive. Whenever someone has a polished live code, interactive demo I can assume it'll easily hit that mark. Being able to demo you API live in 5 minutes is a pretty strong guarantee that it'll be easy enough to implement during the weekend. Plus, developers love to see code and understand how other developers think! I wrote about how to give a great API demo a few years ago. Points are still true, worth a read if you're thinking about live coding: http://theycallmeswift.com/2013/02/01/the-elements-of-a-grea... |
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