I had to upvote this even though I&#x27;ve done my share of live coding presentations. It hits very close to home.<p>How many people have to watch me misspell printf? 50? I think they know what I&#x27;m getting at.<p>Something else that bores the living shit out of me? Those videos where you watch people code. Oh my god. It&#x27;s like watching paint peel.<p>Now, having trashed the concept, I&#x27;m going to keep doing it. I did this &quot;Code along with me on an app&quot; last year and got several emails that folks found it helpful.<p>What to make of the fact that I find it boring yet continue to do it? My feeling is that a presentation that&#x27;s lively and informative to me isn&#x27;t necessarily a presentation that has impact with the people watching it.<p>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.<p>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.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiny-giant-books.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;technical-story-slicing-1-of-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiny-giant-books.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;technical-story-slicing-1-o...</a>