Your constructive feedback is valued – thank-you in advance for your time with this.
You can also continue to fine-tune your portfolio on Notion.
Important
You will be dismissed at 11:30 AM. Please wait until I come out to dismiss you. Until then, to minimize traffic and noise in the academic block, please stay in Hadden Hall, with the exception of essential trips to the washroom.
Remember that you have access to resources such as SwiftUI Views Mastery which is very useful for understanding how to change the appearance and functionality of your group's app.
Be certain you have some functioning version of your app ready to show to your partner's for tomorrow's visit.
Things to do before our next class
Summarize the progress that you personally made within your group's effort today.
Remember that you have access to resources such as SwiftUI Views Mastery which is very useful for understanding how to change the appearance and functionality of your group's app.
Things to do before our next class
Summarize the progress that you personally made within your group's effort today.
To begin today's class, Mr. Gordon will guide each group with enabling source control.
Then, work with your partners to extend the CYOA template that was provided so that it is customized, improved, and tailored to the interests of your partners at LDPS.
Note
If needed, use the GraphGenerator app included with the CYOA template project to analyze your group's directed graph and correct any problems with your group's story, such as nodes (pages) without any edges connecting them to other nodes.
As well, all nodes (pages) that represent endings must be categorized so that your group can produce a directed graph that has it's endings accurately tallied. Categorize a node (page) as an ending by populating the ending_context and ending_type_id column for a given page. For example:
Things to do before our next class
Summarize the progress that you personally made within your group's effort today.
Today, we visit Lakefield District Public School for the third time, to meet again with our partners and collect feedback on your minimally viable product – the MVP – of your group's CYOA app.
Note
Be certain you are taking careful notes from your partner(s) feedback.
Your eventual grade on this task relies in part on clear evidence that you implemented story and game elements based on the requirements and input received from your partner(s) at LDPS.
Things to do before our next class
Share the photographs of the notes that you made today.
Today your group will use the CYOA Template to get started on your group's CYOA book.
One member of your group will assume the project manager role and create your group's primary repository, with guidance from Mr. Gordon.
The other group members will fork this repository; all contributions must be made according to the team source control workflow you used earlier this year.
With the spreadsheet you made in our prior class, use today's class to finish authoring your part of the narrative for your group's Choose Your Own Adventure story.
Tip
Optionally, you may use large language model software (ChatGPT, Gemini, et cetera) as a "co-intelligence" for writing. Put another way, do not have the model write the entire story for you, but use it as a creative partner to generate ideas that you flesh out. Have fun with this exercise of creative writing.
Things to do before our next class
Summarize your progress with authoring your part of the story.
Today, your group moves from planning the narrative for your Choose Your Own Adventure story to authoring the narrative.
Each group member is required to make a copy of this spreadsheet and then immediately add a link to their copy of the spreadsheet in their portfolio entry for today on Notion.
Work with your group members to assign a range of node ID's to each group member. For example, one member may use the range of id's from 1 to 100, the next from 101 to 200, and so on.
So long as node ID's do not overlap, each group member can work in their own spreadsheet to author the narrative.
In a future class, the data in these spreadsheets will be imported into a shared database hosted at Supabase.
In turn, that database will be used by your group's app.
Tip
Optionally, you may use large language model software (ChatGPT, Gemini, et cetera) as a "co-intelligence" for writing. Put another way, do not have the model write the entire story for you, but use it as a creative partner to generate ideas that you flesh out. Have fun with this exercise of creative writing.
Things to do before our next class
Summarize your progress authoring your part of the story.
Important
Be sure you include a link to your copy of the spreadsheet provided above.
Today, we visit Lakefield District Public School for the second time, to meet again with our partners and build out the narrative you have started to develop.
Note
Be certain you are taking detailed notes regarding what story elements your partner(s) are asking for.
Your eventual grade on this task relies in part on clear evidence that you implemented story and game elements based on the requirements and input received from your partner(s) at LDPS.
Things to do before our next class
Share the photographs of the additional plans and notes that you made today.
First, form your groups for the culminating task – maximum of three in a group, please.
Groupings could be based on shared interests of your partner(s) from Lakefield District Public School, but does not have to be.
A Choose Your Own Adventure story can be large enough to encompass a variety of interests from your LDPS partners – even if those interests don't overlap.
Second, begin planning your narrative using the chart paper and the markers provided.
Use point form to make plans for what happens at each node.
Optionally, one person in your group may have a computer open to make use of a large language model such as ChatGPT if that helps you to get an idea for an interesting and entertaining narrative.
Near the end of class, take clear photographs of the plans you made on paper with your group.
Then, hand in your sheet(s) of chart paper to Palmer before you leave class.
Be sure each group member's name is written at the top of each page of chart paper.
Things to do before our next class
Share the photographs of the plans you made today.
Give one-paragraph summary of the story that will be told in your group's Choose Your Own Adventure narrative.
Tip
We will return to LDPS tomorrow; you will then continue planning out the narrative with your partners in Mme. Zmozynski's class.
This will help each of you, as the consultants, determine what narrative or theme might work for a Choose Your Own Adventure app built for the students at LDPS, who are your clients.
Things to do before our next class
Share clear photographs of the notes you took today.
Write a brief summary of what you feel you learned about the interests of your partners at LDPS.
In our next class we will travel to Lakefield District Public School to meet our partners there and determine their interests and what curriculum topics they want to build a Choose Your Own Adventure story around.
Things to do before our next class
Share your progress in one or more updates on Notion.
Learn how the physical layers (Ethernet, WiFi, fibre optic cable, et cetera), protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, and others), work together to connect people around the world.
For teams that have a user they can speak with, today will involve showing your prototype to that user and collecting feedback.
Activity: Creating Project Kanban Boards
For each project, we will meet as a team and create your Kanban board based on the user stories you wrote and the user feedback you received from prototypes.
A Kanban board is a way of organizing project priorities.
Learn how to create bar charts and line charts using the Charts framework and SwiftUI.
Tip
You can follow this tutorial by creating either an iOS or macOS application in Xcode – both work equally well – however, on some computers, macOS projects will compile and run faster.
Exercise: Create a Pie or Donut Chart
Using what you learned in the tutorial above, select either a pie chart or a donut chart.
Create data structures that you can model using the chart type you selected.
Then make a chart to visualize the data.
For deeper learning, if you have time, make both types of charts using your own data.
Example
Here is an example using made-up data regarding the proportion of students in each house at Lakefield College School:
Here is a silly example, but it is good practice with making charts:
Learn how to create bar charts and line charts using the Charts framework and SwiftUI.
Tip
You can follow this tutorial by creating either an iOS or macOS application in Xcode – both work equally well – however, on some computers, macOS projects will compile and run faster.
Exercise: Create a Bar or Line Chart
Using what you learned in the tutorial above, select either a bar chart or a line chart.
Create data structures that you can model using the chart type you selected.
Then make a chart to visualize the data.
For deeper learning, if you have time, make both types of charts using your own data.
If you are finished your AP Create Task, this is an opportunity to further consolidate concepts you have learned in the past, and a way to learn a little more about features of Xcode you may not be aware of.
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 are all good choices to try.
Note
Mr. Gordon was an unpaid technical reviewer for these tutorials; they were authored by a team at Apple.
Complete this activity to solidify your understanding of core programming concepts (loops and selection statements) and begin to build your understanding of sorting algorithms.
Be sure to make a portfolio post on Notion after completing the activity.
If you do not have this application installed just yet, please install it now.
The app makes it easier to manage installation of Xcode versions.
Install Xcode 15
Use Xcodes to install Xcode 15.
Tip
Do not install Xcode via the App Store, as using this method means that it will automatically get upgraded when a new version is released (which is not always ideal).
