Make a coding quiz for people who are interested in coding. Let them test their knowledge, gain more knowledge and hopefully get them interested in further developing their coding skills This week we started our new and final project here at The App Academy. This will last for 5 weeks and we now have to work with a Product Owner that has an idea for an app he or she wants to build. We have three team and three totally different projects. I am working with Willy again, which I am very happy with. Our Product Owner is Mr. App Academy himself, Martijn Wuite. His idea was: make a coding quiz for people who are interested in coding. Let them test their knowledge, gain more knowledge and hopefully get them interested in further developing their coding skills. We used most of Tuesday for brainstorming. Which features does the app need, how should the quiz games be, would people compete against eachother, which backend would we use etc. Of course PostIts are mandatory for this type of brainstorming. In the end we had a good idea of what type of app Martijn was looking for, so on Wednesday we started sketching some rough prototype sketches. These helped us think about the flow of the app, which information should be visible and which type of screens we need. We, and by we I mean Willy because I can't draw, sketched the screens and then used a prototyping app called Marvel to easily try out the app we had thought of. You can see the result with this link. After we made the prototype we went to our Product Owner to discuss what we had made and our thoughts about the app. Although we liked the Quiz concept we had made we also felt like this would not serve the ultimate goal of the app that Martijn is looking for: to get more people interested in coding.
Me and Willy had come up with another concept as well that we pitched to Martijn. We called it the Code Challenge, and it involved the user to finish short snippets of code which then would be visualized once they are done. For example to display a picture. The user would have to fill in blanks in a already half-completed code-snippet. If he or she would get it right, then the picture they chose would be displayed. We felt this provide a much bigger sense of accomplishment than a quiz would, and we think that it is by tapping into THIS feeling that we would get more people interested in coding. Martijn agreed with us and he liked the concept a lot. We learned that even though a Product Owner has a very good idea in his head, it does not always mean that that is the best or the only idea that will ultimately get him to his end-goal. So communication with the Product Owner is very important in projects like this. Which is why Agile and Scrum is so often used in the software industry. So then it was back to the drawing board for me and Willy with a new concept to work out. Below is the Code Challenge concept we showed to Martijn.
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