Animator

• Due: Wednesday 12/02 @ 11:59pm
• Points: 30
• Download: animator.zip

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Eval calls apply,
which just calls eval again!
When does it all end?

Important submission note: For full credit:

• Submit with Phase 1 complete by Thursday 11/19, worth 1 pt.
• Submit with Phases 1 and 2 complete by Tuesday 11/24, worth 1 pt.
• Submit the complete project by Wednesday 12/02.

You may complete the project with a partner.

You can get 1 bonus point by submitting the entire project by Tuesday 12/01. You can receive extensions on the project deadline and checkpoint deadline, but not on the early deadline, unless you're a DSP student with an accommodation for assignment extensions.

Introduction

In this project, you will develop a web application for animating line drawings described by Gleam programs. You will implement an interpreter for a subset of Gleam to securely evaluate user code. You will also extend the application in some way of your choosing.

The example app is available online.

Application Architecture

The app is written in Gleam with the Lustre web framework, and it runs entirely in the browser.

This diagram shows why modules call each other in the finished app.

The file names in bold below are the ones you will certainly need to edit. You are allowed to edit the others, but you shouldn't need to until you add an extension.

Interpreter (Phase 1)

Code that describes a drawing is written in a subset of Gleam that the app interprets. These files are in src/.

• evaluator.gleam — evaluates a function of a parsed program.
• parser.gleam — parses (and validates) Gleam code with the Glance library, adding the program's top-level functions to the global frame.
• builtins.gleam — the built-in functions supported by the evaluator.
• drawing.gleam — runs a program's draw function and converts the result to a List(Path) that the animator renders.
• errors.gleam — everything that can go wrong while evaluating user code.
• limits.gleam — stops an evaluation that does too much work or recurses too deeply (with JavaScript in limits_ffi.mjs).
• mutable_dict.gleam — the mutable dictionary that holds the global frame's bindings (a JavaScript Map, in mutable_dict_ffi.mjs).

Interface (Phase 2)

The application parses the user's code, evaluates a call to the draw function, and then draws the list of paths it returns. The Gleam source files are in src/, and the page (index.html) and stylesheet (animator.css) that load them are in the project's main folder.

• src/app.gleam — the whole web application, which uses the evaluator to call draw and then animates the paths it returns.
• animator.css — all styling for the application.
• src/editor.gleam — the code panel where the user writes programs.
• src/render.gleam — turns each Path into a sequence of points (a RenderPath in the code) along with its timing and thickness, and provides the functions that control the canvas.
• src/shape.gleam — the geometry types (Point, Shape, and Path) that the interpreter produces and the animator renders.
• src/canvas.mjs — the canvas animation loop, in JavaScript, which you don't need to change. Each frame it reveals a growing prefix of the points that render.gleam precomputed; it is kept outside of Lustre so that per-frame drawing doesn't re-render the app.
• index.html — the page that loads the web application.

The app stores the source code of named drawings in the browser's localStorage.

• src/data.gleam — where your code for storing and retrieving the library of saved drawings belongs. It provides storage_get, storage_set, and the new-drawing prompt.
• src/data_ffi.mjs — the JavaScript behind those provided functions, which you don't need to change.
• src/examples.gleam — the example draw functions that a new library contains.

Supporting Files

• AGENTS.md — course policy for coding agents, which they read automatically: they may use your copy of the app, but not the example app or this assignment description.
• extension.txt — your description of your extension(s), for Problem 12.
• dev/ — the development server that gleam dev runs.
• test/ — the Gleam test suites (run with gleam test). Don't change these files. Gradescope runs its own copy of them, so your changes wouldn't count.
• grading/ — the checks for Problems 13 and 14, which gleam test runs.
• gleam.toml, manifest.toml — the Gleam project configuration.

Running the App

Install Gleam and Node.js (version 22 or later). You can verify that installation worked by running these commands in the terminal.

gleam --version
node --version

Now start the app (from the animator directory) and leave it running while you work. The first time you do, you'll see a lot of warnings that you can ignore.

gleam dev

This serves the app at http://localhost:8000 (which is on your own computer), so open that address in your browser. To use a different port, add it to the command (e.g., gleam dev 8001).

The drawings your app saves (Problem 11) belong to the address where you made them, including its port, so they won't appear at a different address such as http://localhost:8001 or http://127.0.0.1:8000. Go back to the original address to find them.

The app requires an internet connection in order for the code editor to appear correctly.

While gleam dev is running:

• To see a change, save the file and refresh the page. Saving a file in src/ rebuilds the app, so you don't need to restart gleam dev.
• A compile error appears in the terminal. Refreshing the page runs the last version that compiled until you fix the error and save again.
• gleam dev won't start if the code doesn't compile, so if it fails to start, fix the error it reports and run it again.
• Press Ctrl-C in its terminal to stop it.

Try running the app now. It won't animate drawings until you complete Phase 2, but it will allow you to edit some example Gleam code. Once you complete Phase 1, this code will be interpreted correctly.

Phase 1: Interpreter

In this phase, you will complete the Gleam interpreter in src/evaluator.gleam, which is used by the app to evaluate a parsed draw function to produce the List(Path) that the animator renders. This file is mostly self-contained, so you shouldn't need to read the rest of the application to get started.

The project's Gleam code uses many types and functions from Gleam's standard library. The Gleam Standard Library lists most of them, with links to their documentation.

IMPORTANT: Do not use a coding agent for this phase. Write the code yourself! Questions about this implementation will appear on the final exam.

Preceptor. To receive credit for each problem in this phase, you must solve it and then complete a short checkoff interview about your solution. You may use Preceptor for the interview or come to office hours to be interviewed by a member of the course staff. If the interviews are not working, please still submit your working code on time or request an extension by the deadline. Staff will be doing in-person checkoffs for up to 3 business days after the assignment deadline (including any approved extension). If a checkoff happens more than 3 business days after the regular deadline, staff may ask to confirm your extended deadline via Flextensions. You will submit a Provenance bundle that includes a record of how you used VS Code, including interactions with Preceptor. Please do not use AI tools other than Preceptor for this phase.

Eval and Apply

Two mutually recursive functions evaluate a program:

• eval(expr, env) evaluates the expression expr in the environment env. Subexpressions are evaluated using eval, and functions are applied to their arguments using apply.

• apply(f, args) calls a function value f on argument values args. Applying a user-defined function involves calling eval on its body in a new environment.

Two features of the provided code keep the interpreter safe and helpful, and you won't need to write any code for them:

• Limiting computation. limits.gleam stops any evaluation that would crash or stall the app. An infinite recursion (such as fn f(x: Int) -> Int {f(x + 1)}) overflows the stack, which stops it with a RecursionLimit error. A computation that performs too many operations (steps) in total stops with a StepLimit error.

• Locating errors. The parser wraps each let and case arm in an At(line, expr) marker, and eval adds that line number to any error from evaluating expr. Error messages include this line number.

Interpreter Types

• An Expr is a Gleam expression that evaluates to a Value in an Env.

• A Value is the result of evaluating an expression. There is a variant for each kind of value in this subset of Gleam: booleans (VBool), ints (VInt), lists (VList), records such as a Point or Line (VData), and functions (VFunc).

• An Env is a sequence of frames: a Local(bindings, parent) frame for each function call, ending at the global frame, which holds the built-in and top-level functions. A local frame's bindings is a Dict(String, Value) from names to values, and a name not found in a frame is looked up in the frame's parent.

• An EvalError represents an error in the draw code written by the user.

The result of draw is a list of the drawing types defined in shape.gleam:

• A Point(x, y) is a position on the canvas. (0, 0) is the center, x and y run from -500 to 500, and positive y is down.

• A Shape is something with a geometry that can be drawn: a Line(start, end) between two Points is the only variant (but you can add more as your extension).

• A Path(shape, start, end, thickness) draws its Shape with the given thickness, in the same units as a Point, starting at time start and finishing at time end. Time is measured in tenths of a second.

Contents of evaluator.gleam

src/evaluator.gleam has five sections, each marked by a comment banner:

• Types. Value, Env, Expr and the types they use, such as Callable and Pattern. The const called constructors describes the fixed set of record types (Point, Line, etc.).

• Evaluation. eval has a case for each variant of Expr, and apply has a case for each variant of Callable. Most of the functions they call appear in this section, including lookup, which finds the value of a name in an Env.

• Pattern matching. find_arm finds the first arm of a case whose pattern matches a value and returns the bindings from that match. match_pattern and match_list do the matching.

• Running a program. run calls a function in the global frame by name. try_draw in drawing.gleam uses it to call the user's draw function.

• Helpers. extend adds bindings to the current frame, and the others build error messages.

You will complete parts of lookup, eval, eval_list, apply, match_pattern, and match_list. The rest is provided.

Problem 1 (2 pt): Evaluating Variables

Implement the Local case of lookup. If the name is bound in the current frame's bindings, return Ok(value) for the value to which it is bound. Otherwise, look it up in the parent environment.

Note: A frame's bindings is a Dict(String, Value). dict.get(bindings, name) returns Ok(value) if bindings binds name to value, and Error(Nil) if it doesn't bind name.

The value of every name is found this way: function parameters, let bindings, names bound by case patterns, and global names such as Point and abs. In this interpreter, even + and * are just built-in function names that are looked up to access their implementations.

gleam test -- q1

Problem 2 (2 pt): Call Expressions

Implement the Call case of eval and the Builtin case of apply.

The parser converts a call such as f(x, 1) to Call(fn_expr, operands), where fn_expr is the expression before the parentheses (here, Var("f")) and operands is the list of expressions inside them. Every operator is a call too: x + 1 becomes Call(Var("+"), [Var("x"), LiteralInt(1)]).

If evaluating fn_expr or any of the operands produces an error, that error is the result of the whole call.

Hint: Steps

The Call case of eval must do three things:

1. Evaluate fn_expr to get a function value.

2. Evaluate each of the operands to get a list of argument values.

3. Return the result of calling apply on the function value and the argument values.

Note: list.try_map(xs,f) calls f on each element of xs, where f returns a Result. If every call returns Ok, the result is Ok of the list of their values. Otherwise, it stops at the first Error and returns it.

In apply, a Builtin(name, num_args, run) holds a run function that takes the list of fully-evaluated argument values and returns a Result(Value, EvalError). The provided code has already checked that the number of arguments is correct, so the Builtin case of apply just calls run on args.

gleam test -- q2

Problem 3 (2 pt): List Literals

Complete eval_list, which evaluates a list literal such as [a, b, ..r]. Its elems are the expressions before the .. (here, a and b), and its rest is Some(r) for the expression after the .., or None if there is no ...

The provided code evaluates all of the elems, calls the list of their values head, and handles any errors. Implement these two cases:

• Ok(head), None: the value of the literal is a list of the values in head.

• Ok(VList(tail)): the r after the .. evaluated to a list whose values are tail.

Note: list.append(xs, ys) is a list of the elements of xs followed by those of ys: list.append([1, 2], [3]) is [1, 2, 3].

gleam test -- q3

Try it out: Now, when you run the app (gleam dev), the default code should evaluate correctly to a list containing one path from (0, 0) to (100, 100).

Problem 4 (2 pt): Let

Complete the Let case of eval. A Let(name, v, body) comes from let name = v followed by some body expression on the next line. The provided code evaluates v in the current environment and, if that produces an error, makes the error the result of the whole Let. Implement the Ok(value) case by evaluating the body in an environment that also binds name to value.

Note: the extend function in evaluator.gleam adds names to the current frame.

gleam test -- q4

You can now use let in the app:

fn draw(shape_slider: Int) -> List(Path) {
  let start = Point(0, 0)
  let end = Point(100, 100)
  [Path(Line(start, end), 0, 10, 2)]
}

Problem 5 (2 pt): Case

Implement the Case arm of eval. If evaluating subject produces an error, that error is the result of the whole Case. If no pattern matches, the result is Error(errors.NoMatchingCase).

Only the body of the matching arm is evaluated. That's what allows a recursive function to end: an arm that makes a recursive call isn't evaluated once the base case matches.

Hint: Steps

Your code must do three things:

1. Evaluate subject.

2. Call find_arm(value, arms) to find the first arm whose pattern matches the value of subject. It returns Ok(#(bindings, body)) with the names that the pattern binds and the arm's body, or Error(Nil) if no pattern matches.

3. Evaluate body in an environment that also includes the bindings, using extend.

Then, add a case to match_pattern for a PVar. The function match_pattern(pattern, value), which find_arm calls, returns Ok(bindings) if pattern matches value, where bindings is a list of pairs of the names that the pattern binds and their values. It returns Error(Nil) if pattern doesn't match. A variable matches any value and binds its name to that value.

gleam test -- q5

You can now use case in the app, with any pattern except a list pattern.

fn draw(shape_slider: Int) -> List(Path) {
  case shape_slider {
    0 -> []
    n -> [Path(Line(Point(0, 0), Point(n, n)), 0, 10, 2)]
  }
}

Problem 6 (2 pt): List Patterns

Complete match_list(elems, rest, vs), which match_pattern calls for a list pattern such as [a, b, ..r]. Like match_pattern, it returns Ok(bindings) if the pattern matches and Error(Nil) if it doesn't. Here, elems are the patterns before the .., rest is Some("r") or None if there is no .., and vs is the list of values to match.

For example, the pattern [a, True, ..r] matches the value [1, True, 2, 3], with the bindings [#("a", VInt(1)), #("r", VList([VInt(2), VInt(3)]))].

• In match_list, complete the provided [], Some(x), _ arm, which is for when no elems remain and the pattern ends with ..x for some variable x. Bind x to a VList of the remaining values vs.

• In match_list, add an arm for when at least one pattern in elems and at least one value in vs remain. The first pattern in elems must match the first value in vs, and the remaining patterns (along with rest) must match the remaining values. If both match, the bindings include the bindings that result from both matches. If either one doesn't match, then the whole list pattern doesn't match.

Note: match_list matches on three values at once, so each of its arms has three patterns separated by commas, such as [], None, []. To tell whether two function calls both succeeded, match on both of their results in one case: case f(x), g(y) { Ok(a), Ok(b) -> ... }.

gleam test -- q6

You can now use list patterns that bind names in the app:

fn draw(shape_slider: Int) -> List(Path) {
  case [Point(0, 0), Point(100, 100), Point(200, 0)] {
    [start, end, ..rest] -> [Path(Line(start, end), 0, 10, 2)]
    _ -> []
  }
}

Problem 7 (2 pt): Calling User-Defined Functions

Implement the UserFn case of apply. Evaluate its body in a new Local frame that binds each of its params (which are names) to the corresponding value in args (which are values), and whose parent is the function's own parent.

Notes:

• A frame's bindings are a Dict(String, Value).
• list.zip(xs, ys) pairs up two lists: list.zip(["a", "b"], [1, 2]) is [#("a", 1), #("b", 2)].
• dict.from_list(pairs) returns a Dict that binds the first element of each pair to its second: dict.from_list([#("a", 1), #("b", 2)]) binds "a" to 1 and "b" to 2.

gleam test -- q7

You can now write additional functions, including recursive ones, in the app:

fn draw(shape_slider: Int) -> List(Path) {
  fan(30, Point(-200, -200))
}

fn fan(n: Int, start: Point) -> List(Path) {
  case n > 0 {
    True -> [Path(Line(start, Point(n * 10, 200)), 0, 30, 3), ..fan(n - 1, start)]
    False -> []
  }
}

The app won't draw lines until you complete Phase 2, but it will show you the list of 30 Path records generated by this code.

Problem 8 (2 pt): Anonymous Functions

Implement the Lambda case of eval. An anonymous function fn(x) { ... } evaluates to a function value. Nothing in its body is evaluated until it is called, so this case never returns an error. Build a VFunc(UserFn(...)) whose name is "lambda" (used in error messages) and whose parent is the environment in which this function was defined, not the one in which it will be called. This is what lets a function use the names around it, even after the call that created it has returned.

gleam test -- q8

In the app, this alternate implementation of fan should now be evaluated correctly:

fn draw(shape_slider: Int) -> List(Path) {
  fan([1, 2, 3], Point(-200, -200))
}

fn fan(xs: List(Int), start: Point) -> List(Path) {
  list.map(xs, fn(x) { Path(Line(start, Point(x * 10, 200)), 0, 30, 3) })
}

Because parser.gleam converts captures and use expressions to anonymous functions, those features now work as well. (It converts a pipeline to a call, so pipelines have worked since Problem 2.) You could define fan as:

fn fan(xs: List(Int), start: Point) -> List(Path) {
  let line_to = fn(x, start) { Path(Line(start, Point(x * 10, 200)), 0, 30, 3) }
  xs |> list.map(line_to(_, start))
}

Or equivalently:

fn fan(xs: List(Int), start: Point) -> List(Path) {
  use x <- list.map(xs)
  Path(Line(start, Point(x * 10, 200)), 0, 30, 3)
}

Congratulations — your interpreter is complete! You can now paste any of the programs in src/examples.gleam into the code pane and see the paths they describe.

Checkpoint 1 Submission

Check to make sure that you completed all the problems in Phase 1:

gleam test -- q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8

You'll get full credit for the checkpoint if you correctly complete all the problems up to this point and their checkoff interviews.

To submit the checkpoint: run Provenance: Prepare Submission Bundle from the VS Code command palette and upload the zip it creates to the Animator Checkpoint 1 assignment on Gradescope. Be sure to submit before the checkpoint deadline of Thursday 11/19. For a refresher on how to create and submit your zip with Provenance, refer to Lab 00.

If you are working with a partner, you should both submit.

Now Use a Coding Agent

IMPORTANT: The remaining phases of the project are designed to be completed with AI assistance. You may try to complete them without AI assistance, but that will require a lot of work!

You may use the example app yourself, but you may not take screenshots or videos or download any of its files. Your coding agent should not do any of these things either or have access to the example app in any way, and it should not read this assignment description.

The purpose of the remainder of the assignment is to give you experience describing an application in sufficient detail for a coding agent to create it, not just to have an agent copy something it can see.

You can use other editors, such as Cursor. It's fine if Provenance does not record your work for the remainder of the project. There are no more Preceptor questions in the remainder of this project.

How Remaining Phases are Scored

Phase 2: Problems 9 through 11 are scored on Gradescope, by tests that interact with your app in a browser. These tests aren't in your project. Instead, gleam test -- q9, q10, and q11 check that your app has the elements that Gradescope's tests look for, identified by the attributes given in each problem. Your app must have these elements in order to be scored, but they don't earn any points by themselves, and they don't check that your app works.

To check your work, try out each feature in your app and compare it to the description in the problem. Then, submit to Gradescope to see your score. You can submit as many times as you'd like before the deadline.

(If we released the tests to you, your coding agent would just read the tests and implement the app to pass the tests.)

Phase 3: Problem 12 will be scored after the submission deadline. Problems 13 and 14 are scored based on completion only using tests distributed with this project.

Phase 2: Interface

In this phase, you will build the app's interface in src/app.gleam styled by animator.css, and enable the user to create, open, and save different named drawings.

During evaluation, the Point, Line, and Path records returned by draw are VData Values. Once evaluation succeeds, try_draw (in drawing.gleam) checks that the result is a List(Path) and converts each field to the types that the animator renders. For example, the user code's integers become floating point numbers.

Important: Your agent will be more effective if it can "see" the app that it's building. Follow these steps to set that up.

Suggestion: You will learn more if you don't copy and paste the question text into your agent chat, but instead describe what you want in your own words.

Problem 9 (2 pt): Animation

Every time the user code changes, animate the paths it returns using these functions from src/render.gleam.

• render.render_path(path, color) converts a Path to the RenderPath that the canvas draws.
• render.set_drawing(paths) replaces the drawing with a list of RenderPaths and animates it in the page's <canvas id="animation-canvas"> element, so your view needs one. Give it the class canvas, which animator.css already sizes.

The animation should start at normal speed and stops when its last path finishes.

Clock. You may wish to call reset_clock when the code changes so that the animation starts over. The example app does not do this; instead letting the clock run as the code is edited (until a reset button is pressed). You can decide how to handle clock resets.

Errors. When the user code errors, the user should be informed. It is up to you to decide how to do this. You can explore options with your agent.

gleam test -- q9

Suggestion: After your agent makes this change, ask for a description of how it works and read through the implementation.

Reminder: This test just ensures that your Problem 9 code is scorable. Upload to Gradescope to score the problem.

What the Tests Check

gleam test -- q9 checks that the canvas has that id, and that the code editor is still in the view. On Gradescope, the test replaces the code twice and checks that each edit calls render.set_drawing. Its code draws nothing, and its second edit only adds a comment, so call render.set_drawing on every edit, even when the drawing is empty or hasn't changed.

All of the tests in this phase use the provided code editor (editor.view_panel and editor.mount), so keep it in your app.

Problem 10 (2 pt): Control Panel

Add a slider to set the shape_slider value that is passed to draw and one to control the speed that can set the speed to a positive or negative value.

render.set_speed(rate) sets the speed of the animation.

Gradescope's tests find your sliders by their data-test-id attributes, so use these:

• the shape_slider slider: attr.attribute("data-test-id", "shape-slider")
• the speed slider: attr.attribute("data-test-id", "speed-slider")

gleam test -- q10

Suggestion: Try out the shape and speed sliders yourself, along with any other controls you decide to add (such as play, pause, and reset buttons). If you notice a problem with their behavior, fix it with your agent.

Reminder: This test just ensures that your Problem 10 code is scorable. Upload to Gradescope to score the problem.

What the Tests Check

gleam test -- q10 checks that your sliders have those attributes. Put each attribute on the slider's <input> element itself, and have both sliders on the page when the app opens. On Gradescope, the tests find each slider's ends from its min and max attributes. They write a draw function that uses shape_slider, move the shape slider from one end to the other, and check that this sends a different drawing to render.set_drawing without changing the speed. Then they move the speed slider all the way left and all the way right, and check through render.set_speed that the speed is negative on the left and above 1 on the right, without changing the drawing. The shape slider's test runs your interpreter, so it needs a working Phase 1.

Problem 11 (2 pt): Drawing Library

Add a drop-down menu (a <select> element) to select a named draw function or create a new one. The options should start with the drawings in examples.all (in src/examples.gleam), which is a list of each drawing's name and source. To ask for a new drawing's name, call data.prompt_drawing_name(), which returns an empty string if the user cancels.

Use editor.mount(source, SetCode) to replace what's in the editor, a browser-based code editor that loads the CodeMirror library in src/editor_ffi.mjs.

Tag the <select> with attr.attribute("data-test-id", "drawing-select").

The code for drawings should be kept in the browser's localStorage, which stores strings under string keys and keeps them after the page is closed.

How to store and retrieve the drawings is up to you and your agent. Implement this functionality in src/data.gleam . You don't need to write any JavaScript: data.storage_get(key) and data.storage_set(key, value) read and write localStorage. You can just use one key for all the data you store.

Gradescope's test types text into your drawings and looks for that text in localStorage, so store the code as text that includes what the user typed.

When the app loads, restore the library from localStorage, so that reloading the page loses nothing and keeps the same drawing open. If localStorage has no library, the app should start with the examples.

A saved drawing might not parse or evaluate. Opening one should show its code and error message, and draw nothing.

gleam test -- q11

Suggestion: Describe each part of the functionality separately: first the menu of starting examples, then the saving and loading of code changes, then adding new drawings. Developing in small steps can be more predictable and reliable.

Reminder: This test just ensures that your Problem 11 code is scorable. Upload to Gradescope to score the problem.

What the Tests Check

gleam test -- q11 checks that the <select> has that attribute, so your way of selecting a drawing needs to be a <select>. On Gradescope, the tests check:

• The menu: it lists at least two drawings when the app opens, and its selected option is the drawing that's open. Creating a new drawing isn't tested, but the tests pick any option as a drawing unless its value is the empty string "", so an option that creates a new drawing needs that value.

• Switching: picking another drawing changes the code in the editor, and switching away right after an edit and back again keeps the edit.

• Saving: every edit appears in localStorage within 3 seconds, with no need to press a button, even if the code doesn't parse. Edits to different drawings are all kept.

• Restoring: after a reload, each drawing's code comes back exactly as it was, including quotes, backslashes, line breaks, and non-English letters, even if it doesn't parse. The drawing that was open is still open. Error messages aren't tested.

Checkpoint 2 Submission

Check to make sure that you completed all the problems in Phases 1 and 2, and that your app can be scored:

gleam test -- q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9 q10 q11

You'll get full credit for the checkpoint if you correctly complete all the problems up to this point, including Problems 9 through 11, which are only scored on Gradescope, and the checkoff interviews for Phase 1. So, check your results there after you submit.

To submit the checkpoint: run Provenance: Prepare Submission Bundle from the VS Code command palette and upload the zip it creates to the Animator Checkpoint 2 assignment on Gradescope. Be sure to submit before the checkpoint deadline of Tuesday 11/24. For a refresher on how to create and submit your zip with Provenance, refer to Lab 00.

If you are working with a partner, you should both submit.

Phase 3: Extension

Extend this application in one or more ways that are interesting to you. You may edit any of the files except those in test/, but make sure that the existing functionality of the application still works in your extended version.

Don't change the tests. Gradescope runs its own copy of test/ with your code, and if your code doesn't compile with those tests, then none of them can run, so you won't earn points for any problem, including those in Phase 1. It's fine to add new shapes, built-ins, and language features. Just keep gleam test -- q1 compiling, which requires the existing functions and types in these files to keep their names and arguments: evaluator.gleam, parser.gleam, builtins.gleam, errors.gleam, limits.gleam, mutable_dict.gleam, and init, update, view, public_url, and video_url in app.gleam.

Don't change Point, Line, or Path. Gradescope's tests draw with them, so adding a field to any of them can cost you points, including in Phase 1. Instead, add new Shape variants. For example, to control the color of a line, add a ColorLine(start, end, color) variant to Shape in shape.gleam and to constructors in evaluator.gleam, rather than adding a color field to Line.

Problem 12 (4 pt): Create an Extension

Implement your extension(s). Focus on creating an extension that you and other potential users of your app would find interesting.

Some ideas:

1. Add polygons, curves, arcs, or circles.

2. Create a game around the animation, such as a character moving along the animated lines to avoid enemies.

3. Create a system for coloring shapes rather than having the app pick colors.

Requirements: Fill in extension.txt with a detailed description of your extension(s) (minimum 80 words). You can use your agent to create this description, but you should create this description in text before you and your agent implement the extension. You can update the description later if the design changes during implementation.

Guideline: At a minimum, your extension should be complex enough that no other students (except your partner) have an identical extension. Therefore, just adding triangles is not enough. For full credit, make something interesting! All students who apply themselves are expected to receive full credit.

gleam test -- q12

This test only checks that extension.txt has at least 400 characters of description, so it's worth no points and doesn't test your extension. Extensions that demonstrate reasonable effort worthy of 4 points will receive full credit.

Problem 13 (1 pt): Deploy Your App

Publish your app on the web, so that anyone can use it. You can serve it at any address you like, but we recommend GitHub Pages, which is free. These steps put it at an address like https://your-username.github.io/animator/.

Once your app is live, set public_url at the top of src/app.gleam to your app's address:

pub const public_url = "https://your-username.github.io/animator/"

Then check it:

gleam test -- q13

This opens your address and checks that it serves this project, with its required controls. It doesn't run your app, so also open your address and make sure it works.

Also, set include_app_in_gallery to True in src/app.gleam if you would like your app included in the course gallery.

Problem 14 (1 pt): Record Your Extension

Create a video up to 2 minutes long that features a draw function different from the ones in src/examples.gleam and demonstrates the extension(s) you added.

Upload it to your Berkeley Google Drive and share it so that anyone with the link can view it: under General access, choose Anyone with the link.

Then, set video_url at the top of src/app.gleam to your video's link:

pub const video_url = "https://drive.google.com/file/d/your-file-id/view"

Then check it:

gleam test -- q14

This opens your link without signing in and checks that anyone with the link can view it.

Also, set include_video_in_gallery to True in src/app.gleam if you would like your video included in the course gallery.

Project Submission

You can check the tests in your project for every part of the project:

gleam test -- score

This is not your score. It counts points for Phase 1 and Problems 13 and 14, but none for Problems 9 through 11, which are scored on Gradescope. Problem 12 is scored by the course staff.

To submit this assignment: run Provenance: Prepare Submission Bundle from the VS Code command palette and upload the zip it creates to Gradescope.

Congratulations! You've completed the Animator project.