"DevOps Days Seattle 2019: Writing and performing a great conference presentation" is a PDF drawn from the Internet Archive and catalogued under Computer Science for Undergraduate / College. From the source: Description This event is sponsored by DevOpsDays Seattle but is open to the public. Attend to learn how to craft superb conference talks! Our trainer will be VM Brasseur. Whether you're an experienced conference speaker… Slide Collection preserves the upstream link, the original creator credit and the licensing terms; download the file to use it in a classroom, study group or revision plan.
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Description This event is sponsored by DevOpsDays Seattle but is open to the public. Attend to learn how to craft superb conference talks! Our trainer will be VM Brasseur. Whether you're an experienced conference speaker or a newbie, there's something for you to learn about creating the best conference talks possible. This material is usually presented in a four hour interactive session. For this training, it has been condensed down to two hours. Both of the videos contain the same material. They're simply recorded from different sources for safety and redundancy. Slides and Audio With speaker notes Without speaker notes Audio-only
How to study this deck
Computer-science slides are deceptively dense. Code snippets and diagrams collapse hours of design decisions into a few lines, so resist the urge to skim. Run the snippets locally, change one variable, and observe what breaks.
Undergraduate viewers should treat this as a scaffolding for deeper reading — the slides outline the territory, but the textbook chapters and primary sources remain the actual content.
Five questions to test your understanding
- What is the single most important claim on the first three slides, and what evidence is offered for it?
- Which slide could you remove without losing the argument? Which slide is load-bearing?
- Where does the deck switch from definitions to applications? Mark that transition.
- What would a student who already disagreed with the conclusion need to see to be convinced?
- Which two slides, if combined, would give the clearest one-slide summary of the whole deck?
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