and we're live here at the cs50 fair
this is Jason Hirschhorn and I am here
with Sofia Katie Logan and can you tell
us what year you are what house you live
in and why you took cs50 I'm a sophomore
in courier house and I took cs50 to get
an introduction to programming I'm a
sophomore in Adams house and I took cs50
because I want to do a secondary field
and see us I'm a sophomore in Cabot
I just thought coding would be
interesting and important to do so took
cs50 and you're all sophomores but not
in the same house how would you find
each other to do this project together
we were friends yeah outside to look in
math and then do you enjoy working with
each other yeah it's been a fun time
what was the best part of working in a
group just like bouncing ideas off of
each other probably yeah and like when
you're working with a group on a project
it's it's fun to be around people your
friends you know so it made the the
product itself more fun did this
strengthen your friendship or tear you
all apart okay let's see the project can
you tell me the name and 15 seconds why
you made it and what it does and then
we'll look at it okay the neighbors run
tourists run and we made this game with
essentially you're a tourist in Harvard
Yard and you're trying to take as many
pictures as possible but not be caught
by securitize and we just made cuzzy
that would be a fun concept can we play
it okay you want me to try it how about
one of you demo it for me okay all right
so spacebar to start your this tourist
in the upper left corner where that's me
that's that's you in the blue yeah it's
like it's like Pokemon and securitas is
in red and you're just trying to evade
secure toes while finding these
photographable objects in yellow here so
for example if I go up here and I click
the spacebar I just took a picture of
the John Harvard statue
it's more there are more the score
increments at the top there's only go in
the paths only go on the path so now I
might want to back out if I hit this
door in the bottom right yes I enter the
next level Widener Library so this looks
like a crypt yeah yeah of course
so you can just keep you know going here
we've got more photographable objects
the securitize are a little bit faster
this time and we just got to avoid them
that's okay and in the final level one
hit the door again is Annenberg so we've
got a quite fast securitize following me
right now and so yeah the same thing
where you got where you heading
I'm trying to just make them follow you
make sure bread spice chicken now we've
got the stained glass windows at the top
which we will see in a second up here so
you can take a picture of these if I
were to die the level is reloaded my
lives increments down by one and then
when you reach the door in Annenberg you
should we should get a windscreen
popping up
doors in the bottom right again you made
it through a brain break me and then you
win and I have the score let's give him
a round of applause for Logan well done
congratulations so when you were
implementing this what was one technical
challenge you encountered when you had
to implement this well okay
so I feel like designing the levels was
not really technical challenge but it
was a really big time sub because we
like hard-coded in best versions and the
collision detection I think was it's a
little bit weird yeah it's difficult to
get enemies to follow the place
securitas not enemy they're doing their
job right you get securitas to follow
the player on the paths without being
caught and just like not moving at all
so if you're like if you're separated by
a barrier you would ideally want them to
go around the barrier to follow you but
that's very hard to do so that was
that's difficult as well there also some
problems with the sound like making sure
it like cutoff at the appropriate times
and didn't loop incorrectly and
sounds play take your word for it that
service work to do there and so with
some of these technical challenges did
you of TF help you to go to office hours
I think we just kind of worked through
it we spent a lot of time on it and
asked each other when we were having
problems and yeah I don't know I mean
and coming it was so coming in to cs50
months ago how what was your background
in computer science basically nothing
background I take an AP CS and I have no
background okay
now whether you had some background
before no background how do you feel now
about computer science much better I
think we have the problem-solving tools
to approach a lot of CS problems which I
really appreciate I definitely feel more
comfortable I enjoyed learning like the
different languages that we didn't see
us 15 yeah I feel better about it is I
like it I like the limelight yes yeah I
felt ringing endorsement I loved it
I like the logic of CS and I think the
things you can do with it I pretty good
do you think this is the you're gonna go
beyond this in the world of computer
science probably I'm very interested in
biological research so all kinds of
things like Python are very helpful with
that
probably yeah like I said I wanted to do
a secondary and see I guess so I'm
probably taking more classes see your
Python which direction do you like
probably Python okay yeah really I mean
I've already done Java which is also
like an object-oriented language like C
great I think there can be elements of
that in future yeah but I feel like
pythons like really applicable to a lot
and that hurts these feelings but okay I
think I will it's just I'm more
interested in statistical you know
applications to you know other problems
so if I might look at the money in
politics I might want to look at
statistics and there's a lot of edge to
do that right right exactly you want to
war in it or get it more on Oh get it up
okay
so statistics and using see us to do
that could be useful and I know with
this went a lot of times when there were
challenges you work together as a team
to work through it but during the course
when you had challenges who was your TF
who helped you out you want to give a
shout out to at office hours or just in
your section are you wanna give a shout
out to I think my GF a hab trope or did
a really good job you tell him he's
watching now a hub Chopra did an
excellent job in our sections I thought
I felt much better after section to do
the P sets how do you wanna give a shout
out to Montague mer we're right there
yeah I feel like he did a really great
job in sections like leading different
league exercises and stuff fantastic
give a shout out straight did a really
great job and I also appreciated
Veronica at the tutorial she was amazing
with those shout outs we'll say goodbye
to our friends we'll say goodbye to
securitas oh they're coming now so send
it back to you at the desk