Present & ship

Today you ship. Shipping means handing it over — someone else can run it, use it, and keep it.

That's a real line, and most projects never cross it. A thing on your laptop that only you can run isn't finished; it's a rehearsal.

So before you present: make sure somebody else could actually take this away and use it.

Whatever you built, three things must be true:

1. It runs somewhere other than your head — a file someone can open, a Scratch project shared, a page that loads
2. It comes with instructions — even one line: "Run tracker.py and choose option 1 to add a task."
3. It works from a clean start — test it as if you'd never seen it, with empty data

That third one catches people constantly. Programs that work perfectly with your test data sometimes fall over on the very first run.