5-6 Plan Algorithms and Build MVP

Lesson 5-6: Plan Algorithms and Build MVP

Objective: Plan algorithm for your app and Build a Minimally Viable Product (MVP)

Design Project Guidebook Pages: 33-36

Engage

Why might it be valuable to plan out the steps of creating a complex app before you code it?

Key Vocabulary

• • Algorithm: Steps to solve a problem

  • Minimum Viable Project (MVP): An early model (or prototype), of your app which allows a user to understand what it does and how they could use it.

Plan Algorithm

Design the algorithms for your app. Design Project Guide pages 32-34

1. Think about the actions each component will perform when different events occur. Write the response to each in plain language.

2. Consider using procedures to organize code and when actions will be repeated.

Build Your MVP

• 1. Create the user interface in the Designer. Give components sensible names.

  2. Create the code in the Blocks Editor. Include many comments to explain your code.

  3. Share your project’s .aia file with your partner at the end of each class period.

Close-Out: Find and Fix Bugs

We learn through mistakes! Describe two of the bugs you (or your testers) found and how you fixed them.

Design Project Guide page 35

If you finish early: Design Challenges

Design You Own:

• • Design your own Nike’s http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/c/nikeid

  • Design your own Vans http://www.vans.com/custom-shoes.html

  • Design your own font: http://www.fontifier.com

Everyday Object Design Challenge

Design a Chair! (For Simpsons Characters)