I had to upvote this even though I've done my share of live coding presentations. It hits very close to home. How many people have to watch me misspell printf?

I had to upvote this even though I've done my share of live coding presentations. It hits very close to home. How many people have to watch me misspell printf? 50? I think they know what I'm getting at. Something else that bores the living shit out of me? Those videos where you watch people code. Oh my god. It's like watching paint peel. Now, having trashed the concept, I'm going to keep doing it. I did this "Code along with me on an app" last year and got several emails that folks found it helpful. What to make of the fact that I find it boring yet continue to do it? My feeling is that a presentation that's lively and informative to me isn't necessarily a presentation that has impact with the people watching it. Last month I wanted to do a demonstration of how to split user stories in a backlog[1] -- but not just the high-level crap you get in class. I wanted to show the whole thing from concept to code. So I did what the author suggested. I did some screen shots of code that I then walked through at the appropriate points. I was able to create an hour of video instead of dozens of hours the other way. And I think it had the same impact. [1] http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/technical-story-slicing-1-of-3/ http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/technical-story-slicing-1-o...