AP CSP 1.3 Exercise 2: Process Doctor - Rescue the Build

Big Idea 1 · Topic 1.3 · Exercise 2

Process Doctor - Rescue the Build

25 minutes - 4 cases - LO CRD-2.E, CRD-2.F, CRD-2.G, CRD-2.H

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Scenario 1 · Foundational

A student spends a month building a locker-organizer app for teachers - layout, colors, and features all chosen because 'they seemed obvious.' At launch, zero teachers adopt it: it assumes teachers assign lockers alphabetically, but at this school lockers are assigned by grade and hallway. No teacher was ever consulted at any point.

Diagnosis (name the process problem with CED vocabulary):

Prescription + justification (the fix, and the EK rule that makes it the fix):

Second-layer issue to flag (enrichment):

Scenario 2 · Core

A pair divides an escape-room game: one partner writes the entire 700-line game in a four-day marathon, then runs it for the first time. It crashes instantly. Every fix reveals two new failures - the timer breaks the puzzle logic, the puzzle logic breaks the scoring - and after a week of whack-a-mole they can't even say which parts have ever worked.

Diagnosis (name the process problem with CED vocabulary):

Prescription + justification (the fix, and the EK rule that makes it the fix):

Second-layer issue to flag (enrichment):

Scenario 3 · Core

A club's event app gets its first real users at the fall fair. Feedback is loud and consistent: the sign-up flow confuses everyone - people tap the poster image expecting it to be a button. The team logs every comment, thanks everyone warmly... and ships the spring version with the sign-up flow untouched, because 'the design phase ended in October and we're in the testing phase now.'

Diagnosis (name the process problem with CED vocabulary):

Prescription + justification (the fix, and the EK rule that makes it the fix):

Second-layer issue to flag (enrichment):

Scenario 4 · Challenge

A solo student builds their Create PT project in a block-based environment with no comment feature, so they keep no documentation of any kind - 'not possible in this language.' The program's cleverest procedure was generated by an AI assistant; it appears nowhere in any write-up, and when asked how it works, the student shrugs: 'It works, that's what matters.' Submission is in three weeks.

Diagnosis (name the process problem with CED vocabulary):

Prescription + justification (the fix, and the EK rule that makes it the fix):

Second-layer issue to flag (enrichment):

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