vernonk/codertalk

A tool for technical presenters, focused towards workshops but easily usable for individual talks.

CoderTalk

Update: December, 2015: CoderTalk is moving to a Sails.js powered application, and will be more robust with an online destination for all presenters to have an easy place to access presentations. There will still be an offline component, where you will not be required to have a connection to work on your talks.

Sails branch: https://github.com/vernonk/codertalk/tree/sails

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CoderTalk is geared towards being a tool for technical presenters, with a focus on workshop type atmospheres (although it can be used for individual talks as well). Still a work in progress although it can be used for simple talks (live code demo for basic code is working). I'll work on putting a more clear README together as the tool gets closer to a more complete release.

To see an example, make sure you have node installed and then clone the repo. In the root of the repo run the following commands from the command line:

• npm install
• ./codertalk "example-talk/config.json"

Once that's done, hop over to http://localhost:4242. You can navigate the slides using Option/Alt+Left or Option/Alt+Right. The need for Option/Alt is related to the code snippets and live preview explained next.

The code snippets on the 3rd slide of the example are fully editable and have a preview panel to the right that will automatically update. This update is debounced to prevent constant updating and will only update 750ms after the final keypress in an editor pane.

For multi-session workshops, there's a panel that can be brought up to select from which session you would like to use. The panel can be shown and hidden using Option/Alt+Up. With the panel shown, you can select sessions using Option/Alt+Left or Option/Alt+Right and then select by pressing Enter on your desired session. You can also simply click on the session with your mouse if you'd like.

High-level Todo's

• Inline tests for attendees to participate in
• Slide sync
• Export

Structure of a Plugin

You can develop your own plugins to use with CoderTalk and then require them in the content file of your talk within the plugins configuration array. Plugins follow a common file structure and are stored in app/plugins.

That file structure looks like this:

|--app/
|  |--plugins/
|     |--pluginname/
|        |--pluginname.js

The structure was created to try and be as simple as possible allowing people to use it how best fit them.

Each plugin JS should follow an AMD pattern as it is loaded via RequireJS. In addition, the require-css plugin is included to load plugin specific CSS files. You can look at the livedemo plugin for an example of how this is used.