Lecture 11

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 ...
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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