As a continuation of both Part 1 and Part 2 in the article series "From Zero to One", this article is meant to clarify two things: (1) how the "NUS Product Club Admin" came about and (2) why and how the "Ninja" was eventually adopted as a branding asset, as asked before by some of our Publicity Team members. 

More onto the Coursemology platform - students would have to maximise the usage of the different features on this website as part of their graded class participation for this course. There are many activities available to help maximise students' learning such as lectures, tutorials, "missions", "side quests" and "contests". For each of these pages, an in-built code editor is implemented to allow interactivity between both the student and the teaching assistant - albeit in a "fun" manner. 

Fun fact: A leaderboard is also implemented for each iteration of this course - to promote a friendly competition amongst students! For each activity completed, experience points will be rewarded to the student for them to "level up". To attain the full grade for this component, students would have to attain Level 50 by the end of the course.

In no particular order: introducing the key features of CS1010S on Coursemology - including an online forum, an in-built code editor and an online leaderboard

A fundamental concept that was taught in this course was to learn how to define recursive functions in Python, preferably in the most efficient way possible. For this segment of the course, a custom "runes" package/Python script was defined using Pillow - also known as Python Image Library, in order to generate the assets that could be used to create the different shapes throughout this "runes" segment.

Raw code used to generate "Ninja" asset - source also available here

When NUS Product Club was originally founded last year, our team had to set up our various social media and communication platforms to prepare our outreach to our target audience(s). Initially intending to preserve a level of anonymity which also establishing a presence on Telegram, an administrative account was also set up to facilitate fast communications with students as an alternative to the conventional emails for administrative queries. This was also used for marketing purposes - particularly in terms of promoting our sign-up forms to boost the attendance of our various events.

While utilising the "Ninja" asset for our club's branding was a spontaneous decision made, perhaps having a proper discussion to create a mascot or figure can be a potential discussion point in the near future - either by our existing Publicity Team, or its future batch of designers. As I may have shared previously, branding is of high importance to our club, and it is important especially when starting out to build something memorable for our students and wider audience to remember us!