How to Make Beautiful Code Presentations

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

"This will probably be a ten-to-fifteen-minute video" he says at the beginning. Translation: "I haven't thought this thing through, let alone scripted or rehearsed it. I'm just going to sit here and yap off the top of my head and you all out there get to lap up my random wisdom."

[@PriyadarshiPrashant]

Perfect translation

[@maybeyesterday]

Bro can you put a morph transition on that translation pls?!

[@PriyadarshiPrashant]

@@maybeyesterday even perfecto

[@DavidHurtadoToran]

If you are changing one logo for another, just copy the new one, right-click in the old logo, “Change Image” -> “From Clipboard”. It maintains the size :-)

[@rid9]

For those wondering, Keynote does have this feature. It's a transition called "Magic Move" and it can match objects, words or characters.

[@andrerenault]

It's had it for quite some time now, too. I remember playing with it in high school, and that was many moons ago.

[@casperes0912]

In fact, Keynote had it first

[@ko-Daegu]

@@casperes0912 what’s keynote ?

[@PhilippeCarphin]

@@ko-Daegu It's Apple's PowerPoint.

[@f4614n]

This video motivated me to start out learning manim a bit. You can achieve more or less the same with the following code (assuming the embedded code is defined somewhere in string form under the variable names code_i and code_f): class CodeFromString(Scene): def construct(self): rendered_code_i = Code(code=code_i, tab_width=4, background="window", language="c++", font="Monospace") rendered_code_f = Code(code=code_f, tab_width=4, background="window", language="c++", font="Monospace") self.play(Create(rendered_code_i)) self.play(Transform(rendered_code_i, rendered_code_f)) self.wait()

[@JosueRodriguez08]

Ohhhhhhhhh this is greaaaaaat. Really dislike depending on Microsoft for stuff, I'll give this a try.

[@Dogflamingo]

That morph transition goes hard 🔥🔥🔥

[@RecursionIs]

Morph transition 🔥

[@madhukiranattivilli2321]

"One Dark" is a very attractive vs code theme I code in java. To illustrate the beauty of this theme... it gives different colors for : -- local variables (white) -- class level variables (orangish-red) -- method parameters and final local variables (light brown) -- keywords (violet) -- method names (sea blue) -- data types (mustard) …

[@vaisakh_km]

you code in java means.... you already lost viewers because not everyone have wide screen monitors..... :)

[@madhukiranattivilli2321]

@@vaisakh_km U seem to be confused. Check ur msg again I'm not the owner of this channel. I'm visitor, just like u.

[@Mavhawk64]

@@madhukiranattivilli2321 they’re just trying to be mean. There are plenty of Java programmers in the world to have a good enough following on KZbin.

[@madhukiranattivilli2321]

@@Mavhawk64 I said "I code in java" coz "one dark" theme feels beautiful for a java program. This need not necessarily be true for any programming language

[@madhukiranattivilli2321]

@@vaisakh_km I said "I code in java" coz "one dark" theme feels beautiful for a java program. This need not necessarily be true for any programming language

[@vintagewander]

I thought you use manim for this because it really has this manim transition style to it, and to my surprise I never thought powerpoint can do this, awesome video

[@ynchen]

Didn't expect this to be this easy. This is great

[@boukefmohamed3191]

do you know i spent a week to searching for that !!! THANK YOUUU

[@centis4533]

You can be the brand ambassador of Microsoft Office suit... You provide the best example instead of the basic examples from Microsoft.

[@rutabega306]

Seriously, I half considered buying a MS product haha

[@adityakhanna113]

​@@rutabega306 I'd want to just get PowerPoint. It's such a powerful software

[@DavesGarage]

Thanks for sharing! I would not have guessed Powerpoint...

[@solitary_crow]

You can generate slides using racket slideshow too. It's a DSL that can be used to make presentations using lisp.

[@imxd9698]

code went from a simple and easy to understand for loop to the most complex "clever" code I've seen in a while lol

[@ji1046]

I'm really hoping the refactoring is a joke or parody but it's probably not...

[@bzboii]

I like how you changed the prev video to point the arrow from haskell back to rust as opposed to how you have it here with rust pointing to haskell

[@code_report]

Wasn't sure anyone would notice that 😊 Great catch

[@bzboii]

@@code_report this is like your east west const slide trivias

[@afmikasenpai]

Wow... I never knew I needed this. Great video as always !

[@brian-bed]

absolutely lovely :) gives me motivation to make my own programming videos

[@bjmckenz]

Thanks for leveling me up.

[@amirgamil]

That was awesome! Thanks for that. You, sir, are a master of your craft! 👏

[@volshebnikozz]

Free online version of PowerPoint has these tools too. (Although UI is a bit different and not 100% of things are available online)

[@avidrucker]

This is super useful to know, thanks!

[@229ac88b]

This!! You can get some pretty decent mileage out of the free version of office, and most people don’t even know it exists.

[@nirajkhatiwada6696]

Only problem is you cannot export as a video.

[@Henry-mc5yq]

The real best programing language, PowerPoint

[@Henry-mc5yq]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWTPoKRoZ7mricU

[@pmcgee003]

Conor's Canadian ... he apologises to powerpoint. 🙂

[@code_report]

😂

[@kamalmohamed6611]

im gonna start a youtube channel 😀

[@liautraver3698]

i struggled a lot about morph transition in regarding to text but just does not find the `text` option which was built in. this was a KILLER for presentation.

[@MartinJaniczek]

"It does objects by default, but for code you typically need words." APL has entered the chat

[@abrudz]

Then you choose "Characters"…

[@code_report]

😂

[@lucasa8710]

I like this, pretty smart and concise

[@torarinvik4920]

A magician revealing his secrets :D, merry christmas to all!

[@snk-js]

this is freakin amazing and still very easy dude

[@husseinamini9026]

Thanks man. I needed it sooo bad

[@LesleyLai]

I tried to find such a code-transition solution back in 2019 and I didn't even think about PowerPoint 😅

[@kaporos]

You can also check revealjs !

[@tangentstorm]

That's pretty cool! I'm going to have to figure out how to make my presentation tool do this, but in the meantime I may give powerpoint a try for a particular refactoring/golfing video I've had on the back burner.

[@damilolaowolabi9148]

What font are you using?

[@pawekoaczynski4505]

I had no idea this effect is so easy to create c:

[@wlockuz4467]

Looks super elegant, just wondering how does your PowerPoint maintain the same syntax highlight as VSCode?

[@abdellahcodes]

Vs code is an electron app, so technically you're copy pasting HTML from a browser not just plain text

[@onebacon_]

I think there's some more magic happening behind the scenes, because if it was just html, than you could see that if you pasted it somewhere else. I think vs code saves some extra data to the clipboard when copying, that can be used by programs which support it and ignored by something expecting text.

[@vaisakh_km]

i am wondering whether i can make a neovim plugin to show this :) ... you know, with git diffs

[@mndtr0]

But neovim is console TUI application and text editor... is that plugin even possible?! This idea sounds more emacs'ish instead of neovim'ish

[@jazimabbas8168]

When I copy the code from vscode, it also copy the background color e.g. if I copy the code, it highlights the code with some background and same background color applied if we paste that code to powerpoint. I don't want this, I only want to copy the code snippet just like you are doing. How can I achieve this ? Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

[@mikkolukas]

Great, simple solution! :)

[@devmahad]

Thank you!!

[@goosybs]

I absolutely love the morph effect, it makes for a great presentation. But I find it very dangerous when trying to make awesome presentations because its so easy to introduce too many elements and animations which makes your presentation visually complex and harder to digest. I think using the morph animation of a maximum of 3 big elements at a time is fine but when you are dealing with more elements you should think about splitting it apart bit by bit. Lets say you want to explain 5 lines of code then you could display only 1 line explain it then display another and so on. Then you can use the morph animation to make it cleaner. But don't forget about making your presentation simple cuz that's more important than the looks. You want that the audience understands what you are talking about and not just "be amazed" at your animation skills.

[@nro337]

very cool!

[@SergeiKonov-xn5bz]

When I copy and paste it from vs code to powerpoint it keeps highlighting but totally ruins formatting. What can be wrong here?

[@CISMarinho]

Great video! Really love it

[@adibhanna]

great videos! would love to know how you actually setup your recording tools. (res. and other things)

[@code_report]

I just use OBS: obsproject.com/

[@adibhanna]

@@code_report really! what monitor res do you use when recording these videos? 1080p?

[@okefejoseph6825]

How do I get the logos?

[@dzaqwanamir]

Great video! What font you use for vs code?

[@code_report]

Consolas.

[@ChaooCharles]

Awesome tip, thank you!

[@watynecc3309]

can we do that in libreoffice ?

[@peacemaker42069]

How do you capture the video afterwards? is it just screen recording?

[@code_report]

OBS

[@phantuananh2163]

Impressive!!!

[@MartinMarcher]

Copy the logo, right click on image and then there’s an option to replace from clipboard

[@winteru388]

It doesn't copy the indent for me :/

[@ishwargowda]

Thanks

[@leofun01]

Wow. I didn't know that something similar exist in PowerPoint.

[@Flutterful]

I have made Flutter videos on my channel and they look as good as the ones made by Flutter official channel. The only difference is that I used Powerpoint and they use After Effects.

[@oscardasilva971]

Thaaaaaaank you

[@InMemoryOfNeo]

morph transition is good. so is there an animation similar to typeing instead of transition? for example there is a virtual cursor and powerpoint will write different codes when passing to another layer.

[@definite_d]

Instead of deleting images, I think there's a replace image option in the right click menu of images.

[@skeletonboxers7336]

my sleep deprived self read this as "how to make pretentious code beautiful"

[@mohammadbasyouni7171]

the first 21st min and the 21st like

[@cariyaputta]

It'd be great if you only use free and/or open-source tools. Microsoft PowerPoint won't cut it.

[@mateoferretto2175]

This is doable in PowerPoint online, which is free

[@alpaslaneldemir6904]

Also check RevealJS

[@bzboii]

yessss

[@fildaCZSK]

How to make beautiful code presentations 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@snk-js]

genius

[@FlowerBoyWorld]

wow it bugs me so much how you just put text boxes anywhere without reference points

[@RajeshPandianM]

❤❤

[@sammflynn6751]

crazy

[@xenten9686]

I am disappointed in how possible it would be to automate this process and yet it is not done.

[@noqulee]

Nice content, but your mic is clipping. Try compressor. Have a good one!

[@bzboii]

1:50 *2019 or _later_!

[@kharthigeyan]

3Blue1Brown type of transitions, no need for python manim library

[@leo848]

What do you mean by "no need for"? Manim is literally so much better than this proprietary program that costs 100$ per year.

[@f4614n]

@@leo848 I'd like to learn more about Manim - do you know how to achieve similar transitions like shown in this video using Manim? Edit: After scrolling a bit through the documentation, the closest I found are the classes in animation.transform_matching_parts for shapes and LaTeX on the animation side of things and manim.mobject.text.code_mobject.Code for code listings. Haven't tried it out yet but it currently doesn't look like a 1:1 equivalent. Edit 2: I figured out how to do this in manim (for a practical example see my other post). Its actually fairly simple and straight forward to do.

[@OldestJunior]

What a great vid. Thank you. Do you have any recommendations on code fade ins like in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXe1mXqkqr16Y5Y

[@metalosaur]

Wait, you don't use self-written presentations generator with code-based input? How dare you!

[@voilin]

For the love of god don't make dark theme presentations please. It's fine too look at the monitor screen, but once you show it through the projector you will quickly realise that you can't see anything and neither the spectators

[@leo848]

I really like the videos and the style used, but I really don't think it's necessary to use proprietary software here. As far as I know, the free and open-source manim animation library by 3Blue1Brown includes a similar effect and automatically has syntax highlighting via pygments. This way, you don't have to rely on some software provided by a company that might, for whatever reason, remove a feature whenever they want. Another benefit is that the entire process can be automated - no need for manually moving code blocks to look more aesthetic, design an algorithm once and use it forever. You can also add post-render scripts like running every file to check if it compiles, format it beforehand and much more - the possibilities are really endless. Or even design a custom morph algorithm if manim's standard one doesn't feel right - again, PowerPoint might change at any point in time and you as a customer have no say in how. See the manim library here: github.com/manimcommunity/manim

[@MartynPS]

Manim does have a similar effect, but coding from scratch is definitely not a 3 clicks and done process. As is often the case OS can probably do this better but not without investing some additional time and brainpower. As for PowerPoint changing at any time... I would expect the OS software to be more of a risk of changing - and then you have to maintain some older fork.

[@leo848]

@@MartynPS > I would expect the OS software to be more of a risk of changing - and then you have to maintain some older fork Well yes, but at least you have the ability to. It's literally as easy as changing a number in a text file or bash command. With PowerPoint it might not even change, but be locked behind a paywall / further subscription / etc that we can't even think about now (as has happened in the past, when one-time-prices turned to subscriptions and you basically didn't own any software anymore). While writing an algorithm to do this work might be tedious and difficult, it is still a way to future-proof this way of presenting code and maybe even add more options - but it isn't even necessary if great libraries like manim exist that have animations, interpolation and syntax highlighting for free (so you don't even need Microsoft VS Code for it).

[@MartynPS]

@@leo848 but it's a cost benefit or risk balance analysis right? If code_report spends some hours doing something now to achieve something he already has without overtly improving his product then no-one has gained anything - probably the opposite if it takes longer to achieve the final tweaks etc.

[@tsukigva6130]

Thanks