Merrill Cornish <merrill.cornish@earthlink.net> writes:

David,

Having an introductory video to _Boost_ is problematic since there's no one thing called "Boost". Instead, it's a collection of often disparate libraries.

The "one thing" is the library collection.

Each of the libraries could reasonably be featured in its only "getting started" video.

That would be "Getting started with library X," not "getting started with Boost."

However, if the point is to _sell_ the whole Boost idea, then one alternative would be to bypass the details of syntax and function calls of the various libraries in favor of a "Why do you need Boost" talk/pitch/video. Talk about what kind of everyday problems it solves for you rather than trying to explain the nitty gritty (and 200 levels of nested template declarations) of each library.

I never had any intention to do anything like that that.

The pitch would verbally sketch (i.e. probably no code) a real world programming problem, then point out what the Boost library has to help out. A series of problem sketches would allow the pitch to cover a lot of otherwise disjoint Boost functionality and still make sense.

I'm not planning to design a video from scratch to "pitch" Boost. *If* we can do this, it'll be a capture of the talk I give at SD West. So it's not going to be a pitch; at least, it won't be any more of a pitch than is warranted by the abstract for that talk. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com