Studio 1 — Build Sprint
Full working session for Project - Final ProjectProject - Final Project
See also: Grading · Lecture 10
Brief
In teams of up to 3, take a product idea from concept to a working, deployed web application that a stranger could use — built primarily by directing ....
Format
- First 15 min — standup: each team states what's built, what's next, what's blocked
- Working time — build with AI tools; I circulate for unblocking and prompting help
- Last 30 min — crit: each team demos their work-in-progress live (deployed URL, not slides)
Themes that come up in crits (and get mini-lectures on demand)
- Scope-cutting: the art of the smaller version that actually ships
- When the AI is stuck in a loop: strategies for getting unstuck (restart, reframe, read the error)
- Keeping your repo clean enough to not lose work
By end of week
- Sprint 1 goal met: core flow working end-to-end, however ugly