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    <p>Soon I will need to give a presentation on my honours project for the engineering faculty and a large group of engineering and technology students at my university. While all the the people attending will be technical-minded, not all of them will be programmers and most will be from other engineering disciplines.</p> <p>I have given presentations before, and I am confident speaking to a crowd, but I realize now all the presentations I have given before have been to fellow CS/SE majors and teaching staff. I wonder if my presentation style assumes that I am presenting to other software geeks, so they will know what I am talking about and I can put on a more interactive demo involving the audience.</p> <p>My honours project isn't terribly complex or theoretical, I have a prototype C# Winforms app but it is designed to be extensible and operate with different data sources (ODBC or WS) in the future, and some research to how it could be extended with a rule engine and DSL and turned into a marketable product. The organization that is testing my prototype is saving tens of thousands of dollars a year by automating a critical business function.</p> <p>I had planned to show off how extensible it was by some live coding and UML-style diagrams. I really enjoy doing demos and live coding but I don't know if that kind of presentation will be as accessible to non-programmers, and I am worried if I get too geeky and technical I may alienate the audience and judges. </p> <p><strong>What are the effective techniques you have found to present software projects in a way that is also interesting to non-programmers</strong></p>
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    1. COGreat suggestions so far, thanks!
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    2. COIf you enjoy coding - then code away! Your enjoyment will be contagious. Just remember to turn the font size way up and make the code real simple. More than ~10 lines or ~2 methods and you'll lose 'em. And by definition if you're using a DSL it /has/ to be understandable by your non-programmers. All engineers appreciate clarity and directness.
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    3. COHey, how did this ever turn out?
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