I had the amazing opportunity of giving a talk about Frontend web development at NYU Makerspace at the end of October 2018.

This was my second talk at NYU Makerspace and I jumped at the opportunity because having a platform to speak to a crowd is really valuable. I was determined to improve my public speaking at this talk and try and really communicate with the audience.

karan talking

I started off explaining the state of the “Weird Wide Web” and why we need the many tools that we need to code in today’s Frontend world.

I covered the basics of ES6 Javascript, and everyone seemed keen on understanding the nuances which made this portion of the talk pretty fun to go through.

I created a document that I used as my presentation with explanations, code samples, and resources. It’s a document I’m pretty proud of making, because I found that just putting it together was very useful to me.

Here is a copy of it - Web Tutorial

I covered all of the theoretical underpinnings of React and Redux and showed some of it in action, but I didn’t get to complete as much as I hoped to with the demo I had setup.

Given that most of the audience were NYU students, my idea was to make a resume-maker tool that they could build out themselves and use to create their own resume. I have hosted it here - https://resume-maker-nyu.herokuapp.com

In summary, my takeaways from this talk:

  1. I was very happy that I presented everything confidently. I realized that I was very comfortable talking to everyone because I knew the topic well - it is my bread and butter, after all.
  2. I didn’t anticipate enough time for questions, which led to me not covering a portion of the live-demo.
  3. It was great to network and be around motivated people who want to learn something.