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03.10.2017 Hi Paul, I did some refining on what my Tic Tac Toe app is going to be. It is now going to be a single player game, where the user is "X" and to place the opponents "O", the user shakes the device, which places an "O" randomly in an available space. To Do this, I think I'll use an array of all the spots on the board, which gets appended according to all the pieces which have been placed on the board. Right now, there is no real strategy to where the "O" is placed. Just a random available spot. I currently have a label that indicates a winner. I need to get the label to indicate when there is a draw. I also have a Restart button that appears when there is a winner and the user is able to restart the game. I have a field for the name of the user and a field for the name of the opponent. I can get the keyboard to disappear by clicking anywhere outside the keyboard. The only problem is that the game board takes up most of the screen and you may accidentally place a piece when clicking outside the keyboard. I think I need to bring up a transparent or even colored field overtop of the game when the keyboard comes up to give the user a place to click without placing a game piece and dismiss it with the keyboard. I have a label to track the score that I need to hook up. I also made sure I could get into my Apple developer account, since I hadn't been in it for months. It looks different now and it looks like Apple may have changed a few things. I started thinking about my key search words for the app. I think I'll call it Tic Tac Shake with an icon that kind of looks like (( X )) I need to work on the stack views for my app. I also need to hook up the app to a GitHub repository. Just seems kind of silly when you are working on your own, but it's necessary. I met with Sarah ___ on Tuesday. She is the iOS developer from Seattle that has been mentoring me. She suggested I use classes to keep track of the spaces on the board. I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate that into my code. Creating the classes will give me the flexibility down the line to re-use that code for other apps. Thursday I went to a ruby meetup where the speaker talked about going from being a hotel manager to being a Ruby developer. It kind of spoke to me because he was teaching himself and he talked about his goal setting process. He also talked about blogging, which I need to do. I'm not Natasha the Robot, but I could be. I already have a website that I made using Bootstrap and run off of GitHub. I can just take the maps tab and use it for blogging and announcing my apps in the App Store. (I'm writing to you each week, so maybe this becomes my blog.) You need a website to put an app in the App Store and this site already exists. I just need to think of a way of incorporating it that makes sense, since my site is about images from my Cherrydale neighborhood and the flowers and plants in the neighborhood. I put in some extra hours at Starbucks to help my store manager. She helped me get an audience with the regional manager of Starbucks and his boss that were visiting our store. I was able to pitch them to ask if they can connect me with the iOS developers from Starbucks for more people to talk code with and maybe do an internal app for Starbucks partners. I have no idea if they can come through and connect me, but let's see what they come up with. What's the point of working for a really great company if you can't get some street-cred as a developer out of it? Hopefully I can wrap up this Tic Tac Toe app next week. Sharon