Meaning of Life Lab

Break into teams. One person codes. One person researches. One person leads app design and user experience. You're going to use the skills you've learned this week to build an app as a team. You'll need to self-assign roles. Your instructors will be available to answer questions as needed; ask if you are unsure of something!

Coder

• Work with everyone but make sure you're coding
• Take the lead in code design
• Create a Git repository called meaning-of-life and publish it.
• Find it on your Github profile (https://github.com/your-username) under repositories.
• Add/commit/sync like a baws.
• Share the link to your teammates and have them fork when the app is complete.

Researcher

• Research methods and problems that the team encounters
• Be the problem solver
• Not coding, but finding the answers to problem
• Actively researching how to do x and y

Designer

• Lead a team ideation session for five minutes with the following columns:
  • user input/output code ideas
  • user prompts (text/design)
  • user expectations, awesomeness
• Create user stories somewhere (whiteboard, table, sheet paper on walls)
• Work with everyone to make sure the user experience rocks!

PROMPT

As a team, you are designed to create an application that describes the meaning of life based on different philosophers. A user must be able to use your console application to view a list of every philosophy and to enter in a value to see the description of any value. Below is the list of philosophies that you must make available to users.

Hints

• You'll need [] of Strings that contain philosophies and descriptions.
• This app has at least two primary screens that must be seen to users.
• You can design your app to run based on console arguments.
• You could also research how to use the Scanner class and the Reader class to accept user input.

PRESENTATIONS

When done, each team will spend a few moments to present their application on the projector!