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carpentries-incubator / hpc-intro

An Introduction to High Performance Computing
https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/hpc-intro/
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Jargon-buster presentation #377

Closed reid-a closed 2 years ago

bkmgit commented 2 years ago

This is nice. Would suggest not using PDF as default, but instead use HTML slide software such as:

An example presentation https://bkmgit.github.io/simple-slides/

reid-a commented 2 years ago

The benefit of PDF and the pdfpc tool in particular are that it allows for a "presentation console", where speaker notes are available to the presenter. This helps to ensure that all of the relevant points actually get mentioned to learners, without requiring a large amount of text on the slides themselves.

This is high-value, I think, although we have already had some portability issues, newer pdfpc implementations apparently don't use the same notes file format as the one used to compose this initially.

If there is an HTML slide tool that can show notes to the presenter, that would be a good solution.

Technically, it's easy to add new targets to the makefile, of course.

bkmgit commented 2 years ago

Notes functionality is available or can be added if one wants to use a custom template. Carpentries typically discourages lots of slides since the pace may be too high. Some introductory and overview concepts might be better presented that way though instead of through the lesson material.