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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
If everybody could program, I wonder whether those standard presentation programs would even exist. Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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