Week 1: Coding Period

This week marked the official beginning of the coding period. Going by last week’s set goals I started on the video creation part first and foremost.

In order to portray a Visual Circuit solution that was good to view as an example, I first had to solve a persistent bug that had troubled me for a while.

Namely, I wasn’t able to get string outputs to be shared between blocks. To solve this my mentor had suggested simply updating to a new version of the repo, I moved up a few commits and viola it worked as intended.

Creating the Apps

Following that I started changing the old solutions that I had made to better utilise the block design of Visual Circuit. The diagrams of the solutions to Visual Lander and Labyrinth Escape are as follows:

I noted a few bugs during this whole process namely:

• The files in staticfiles should be moved to the static folder
• Having multiple blocks of the same type causes them to be built with the same name e.g.:

Goals for Next Week

The main focus for next week will be on solving the issues encountered this week:

• Change between static and staticfiles (link to issue)
• Multiple same blocks are built incorrectly (link to issue)
• Improving block templates

Solution Videos

Visual Lander

Labyrinth Escape

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