I am scheduled to give a presentation this week, in which I would like to include some new demos. Theoretically I could go back and forth on my computer between the demos and some kind of standard presentation software, like PowerPoint or KeyNote.
But the weird thing is, it’s just a lot easier for me to write my own software that does everything I would want from PowerPoint or KeyNote, and insert that into my demo program. Which seems odd, because those are major tools used by just about everybody for giving presentations.
The difference, I think, is that I know how to program. And just a little bit of programming goes a very long way when you want to give a custom presentation. For one thing, you can easily to things that are just impossible using commercial tools.
If everybody could program, I wonder whether those standard presentation programs would even exist. Hmm.