Class 12 — Final Project: Build & Debug Pilot

Entirely build time using your own Class 11 design plan as blueprint, closing with one short in-class debugging pilot with a partner to confirm the task runs, with nothing kept or analyzed.

Today is entirely build time using the design plan you finalized in Class 11 as your blueprint. You’ll build your novel task in PsychoPy from a blank file, then close the day with one short debugging pilot: a partner runs your task once, purely to confirm it works cleanly start to finish. Nothing from that pilot gets kept, analyzed, or committed to your repo in case you ultimately decide to make a public copy of your repo after the semester (even a quick debugging run is a real person’s data, so it never gets committed, period). HW7 will have you simulating, wrangling, and visualizing your own final-project data; it’ll be assigned at the end of today, due Mon 12/7 by 11:59 PM (the night before Class 13).

Reading due: — · Due today: —

What you’ll be able to do

1. Build your novel task in PsychoPy, applying the skills accumulated across Classes 2–5, from your own Class 11 design plan.
2. Run your own task once as the experimenter for a real peer partner, purely to confirm it runs cleanly end to end, not to collect data that gets kept or analyzed.
3. Explain why this pilot’s exported data is never committed to your GitHub repo, and where your actual final-project analysis data will come from instead (simulation, in HW7).
4. Identify what still needs fixing in your own task, if anything, before HW7’s simulate/wrangle/visualize work.