The Lizard 🦎 Spock 🖖 Addition Conundrum
One of the few positive unintended consequences of the pandemic and resulting change to my district's school schedule is that got more time with my students. This has resulted in my students learning more lessons and building more apps this year than I have been able to accomplish in previous years (this is the fifth year I have taught some sort of app development using Swift). My junior (11th grade) students and I worked through the entire Develop in Swift Explorations course . This class LOVES to make and play games - that is actually a big part of our Career-Tech program.. So, the RPS (Rock Paper Scissors) app was on their favorite lessons we had all year. Given their enthusiasm with making this app I wanted to seize upon this opportunity to extend this app in order to teach my students version control, the software development/iteration process.
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