App Clinic & Meetups check-in

by Elliott Hauser

08 Mar 2016

Q&A

  • For Issues: Please use “Fixes #XXX” in your Pull Request description so they get automatically closed. OR, close them manually once the PR is merged (but who wants to do that?)
  • Apps & reflections due tomorrow night at midnight! Don’t miss this deadline.
  • Doughnuts on Thurs! Please feel free to bring in goodies to share.
  • Any Qs?

Check-in

How are your Meetups coming?

5 minute Meetups Scatergories. Make a list of 3-5 local (less than one hour drive from UNC) programming meetups, with links to a website and their next meeting. (Must have an upcoming meeting)

Scoring: One point for each qualified meetup that’s totally unique.

Who wins: Besides us all, since we now have a dedicated list of great meetups? The person(s) with the highest score.

How are your Open Source contributions coming?

Consider playing a similar game with some friends.

5-10 minute Exam review

There were lots of details in there! How did it feel?

Answers here. Please do not share these answers with friends in the other section.

15-25 minute App & Milestones Clinic

  • 3 Volunteers or randomly chosen students for full class clinic

Pair Up! (~30 mins)

  • Explain your app to your partner
  • Identify what’s left to do
  • You should have: ‘object’ of the game, basic structure, most of the requirements.
  • Focus on: Is the game fun? Can you increase ‘production value’? Anything you need to tighten up?
  • Bubble up any tough questions to me

If you finish discussing your apps, keep working on your app and use your partner and me as resources while you can.

Elliott Hauser is a PhD Student in information science at UNC Chapel Hill. He's hacking education as one of the cofounders of Trinket.io. Find Elliott Hauser on Twitter, Github, and on the web.