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A comment on Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?. Parent comment
It has all the same difficulties as a regular talk, but with some added handicaps:
- no ability to make eye contact with your audience and feel the room
- no way to talk over small errors, if you get stuck on a bug it can take you 10 minutes to find your way back out
- very difficult to keep the audience’s attention since all they see is a wall of text
- talking and typing at the same time is really hard, you get to enjoy stammering your way through fumble fingers
In short: only try a live coding talk after you have a lot of presentation experience.
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It has all the same difficulties as a regular talk, but with some added handicaps:
- no ability to make eye contact with your audience and feel the room
- no way to talk over small errors, if you get stuck on a bug it can take you 10 minutes to find your way back out
- very difficult to keep the audience’s attention since all they see is a wall of text
- talking and typing at the same time is really hard, you get to enjoy stammering your way through fumble fingers
In short: only try a live coding talk after you have a lot of presentation experience.