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Lesson 78: Pick and plan
Level 10, Build Your Own Thing. One small idea, a few features, and a plan. The new word: feature. It follows lesson 77, Level 9 test: Agent Boss. Next comes lesson 79, Set up the project.
What the lesson explains
Pick and plan. Your own project, from an idea to finished.
Start small. A feature is one thing your project does. one idea; a few features; a plan first.
What you do first
The right size. Which first project is the right size? The answer: "A one-page site of cat facts".
The files on the practice computer
This lesson works in one folder. At the start, Documents holds diary\, music\, my-project\, my-site\, stories\, vault\, homework.txt.
You change nothing here, so lesson 79 finds the same files.
What you practise
Try it, "The right size": Which first project is the right size? The answer: "A one-page site of cat facts". Then: Which one is a feature of a cat facts page? The answer: "It shows facts about cats".
Challenge, "Plan it with the agent": Build a prompt: plan the cat facts site. In the Prompt Builder, pick the clear part for each slot: Where: "In a new folder, Documents\cat-facts,"; Goal: "plan a one-page site with three cat facts."; Done when: "Done when I have a list of small steps."; Limits: "Do not write any code yet.". Then send it to the pretend agent.
Plan mode, "Approve the plan": The pretend agent says: "My plan for Cat Facts. Nothing changes until you say yes." It asks to follow its plan (Make the folder cat-facts and start Git; Write README.md: what the project is; Make index.html with a title and three facts; Add style.css to make it look nice; Test it, save it, and share it). The right answer is Allow: it does what you asked, and nothing more.
What PlayBuddy and PlayType say
PlayType: "Welcome to Level 10! Now you build your own thing, from start to finish."
PlayBuddy: "Start small! One page that works is better than ten that do not."
Help in every lesson
Everything happens on a pretend computer in your browser, so nothing touches your real files. PlayBuddy and PlayType stand beside the board, cheer you on and say when it is your turn.
A green ring shows where to click the first time. After that you do it on your own, and if you slip twice the ring comes back.
Stars
The lesson has 4 things to do. Up to one slip in ten gives three stars, up to one in four gives two, and finishing always gives at least one. Stars and progress are saved in this browser only; there is no account.
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