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Okay, so let us set up a simulation for
the final project of this course.
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I am gonna stitch together
a bunch of your skills and
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we'll build a pretty solid application.
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Let us pretend that all of the remaining
cast members of the comedy group,
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Monty Python, are going to get together
and do a question and answer session.
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They're gonna be discussing
what it's like for
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them as a comedy group, to have jokes
that they made over three decades ago
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still referenced in Python tutorials and
code examples.
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It would be such an amazing discussion,
because surely,
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they didn't see that coming.
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They have a very strong fan base,
alive and well,
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in this programming language subgroup.
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Now, let's also imagine, since they're
funny like this, that they want to have
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the only way that you can buy tickets,
is through a single python script.
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No website, no app.
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Just a single console app.
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You can only buy tickets using a command
line program where no one would expect it.
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Spain, in a cheese shop.
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You've been tasked with
writing that program.
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Sound fun?
There are some very specific instructions
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and I've gone and
captured them for us in a tool.
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Let's walk through
the product requirements.
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So this is Trello.
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It's a free tool and it works really
great for keeping track of tasks.
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There are many different ways
to build an application.
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And I figured that we take a quick look
at one of my personal favorites, Scrum.
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Now, if you'd like to learn more about
Scrum, check the teacher's notes.
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Scrum encourages you to break down
requirements from your client
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into what are known as user stories.
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And they are a great way to
make sure that developers and
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the client understands what they are
building together and for what purpose.
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Now, I've gone through already and
written them out for
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this project and
they're in the format like I have here.
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So, as a role, or user in case,
I should be able to and
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then basically whatever the request is,
so that business reason.
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I'm going to use Trello as a task board.
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Some teams actually use sticky
notes in their office and
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they move stories from to do,
in progress and then to done.
2:03
Anyone in the office can walk up
to the board and move it over.
2:07
So people don't end up
working on the same code.
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Trello just does this online for us.
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We'll introduce ways for you to work and
share code with your team mates,
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as you continue through these courses.
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Check the teacher's notes for more.
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But for now, we're just gonna
use this like a task list.
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The different columns are different
states that are ticket could be in.
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Backlog is just all of the request
that ever came in for this project.
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So we'll move stuff that we agree that
we can do to the to-do column and
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then we'll work through those.
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We'll leave ones that we're not ready for
yet in the backlog.
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Now I find that this really helps me
keep focus on the task at hand and
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I can get a birds-eye
view of all that is left.
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Does it sound good?
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Why don't we take a read through
these tickets that I built?
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Okay, so this first one here.
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As a user, I should be showing
the number of tickets left remaining, so
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I can understand
the importance of buying now.
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That makes sense.
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Gotta give them a little bit of FOMO.
3:04
As a user,
I should have a personalized experience so
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that I feel welcome by the brand.
3:10
Cool, I'll have to get to know
what their name is I guess, right?
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As a user, I should have errors
reported in a user friendly manner.
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That is totally true of just
about every application.
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I'm glad this is a ticket.
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We can work through that one.
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As a user, I should be able to
request a certain amount of tickets.
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Like how many you wanna buy and
be told the total cost, so
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that I can determine if I
wanna purchase the tickets.
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Okay, that makes sense, we can do that.
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As a user,
I should be able to confirm my order so
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that I do not accidentally purchase
more tickets than intended.
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You would hate to have somebody
actually buy 1,000 tickets, right?
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And then finally,
as a user I should not be
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offered tickets if they're aren't any
available, that would be horrible.
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Who'd wanna sell something
when you're out of it, right?
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So there are limited amounts of seat
to this performance that we're having.
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And as a user I should be able to
purchase using credit cards and Bitcoin.
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Wow, that is out of our scope right now,
we're not gonna get to that one.
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But, I do feel pretty good
about these to do tickets,
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I think we can knock all of these out.
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Sound like fun?
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You can totally build this.
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Let's get started,
right after this quick break.
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