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Beatriz Ribeiro

great questions!

• On the Prerequisites page, you’d mentioned you could suggest a self-study course to shore up skills needed for this class. What would you recommend for those who completed a basic programming course but who feel they need something else?

Coding is a creative and technical skill. Improving at coding is primarily driven by deliberate and playful practice. I strongly believe in the [creative learning spiral,](<https://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/kindergarten-learning-approach.pdf>) as the most effective learning method for creative coding.

Tips for effective practice:
- some practice should be playful, just having fun, trying things out
- some practice should be purposeful/technical. trying to make/recreate a SPECIFIC technical result with a specific technique
- some practice should be in service of a real project. this is what most of your studio assignments are
- practice should be frequent and spaced out. for many skills practicing 30 minutes every day is WAY better than 3:30 once a week.

• Game A, B and C pages say we should develop original game assets (art and audio). How strict is this rule? Will we be able to use free asset libraries to support some of our work?

I think that it is valuable to make your own assets, and probably want to stick to the requirement generally. I understand that many students will not have a lot of experience with sound in particular, and would be more open to to asset libraries there.

There are good arguments both for and against using library art in prototyping (and finished games) and this is something we'll hopefully discuss in the course

I'm open to disucussing motivated exeptions.

• Do we have examples of A-grade games?

Not yet. This is the first time this class has been offered, so I won't be able to show past student work. We'll be talking about scope, ambition, and expectations during the first class though.

Tanvi Mishra

1. “If you prefer not contribute to p5.party, just let me know and I’ll waive the associated course work.” - Are the games considered as the contribution to p5.party or is there other contributions we are expected/ recommended to make?

The games you make will *use* p5.party, but they will be independent.

A very clear example of an contribution would be "adding a feature to the library itself", but you can also contribute via writing documentation or simply reporting bugs or requesting features.