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What is the best presentation tool for technical stuff?

While recently exploring prezi I realized there have to be better tools than PowerPoint for presenting something, especially technical stuff. What differentiates technical stuff from other stuff in my opinion is the support of these features:

  • be able to insert large code fragments
  • scroll in code fragments
  • annotate (highlight) text/code easily
  • have several "steps", ie. on pressing a key, something is highlighted, displayed, moved, etc. (this is missing in prezi)
  • include images with dynamic sources (eg. to include yuml diagrams)

Here is a great overview of alternatives, has anybody evaluated some?

Solution

  • I would say prezi! Especially because how you can show your code on it (as you already mentioned, and I don't really know any other presentation stuff who can do anything similar)

    There's an interview with Facebook engineer Brian Shire about prezi

    And some discussion on blogs about it.

    See here and some ideas on how to use prezi here

    Also techcrunch speaking about prezi