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+Positives:
+- [ ] Speaks excellent English
+- [ ] Obviously very familiar with Visual Studio, used short cuts like autocompleting property definitions
+- [ ] Seems very calm and worked immediately, very straightforwardly
+- [ ] Created well-defined methods on `Board` to facilitate various functions like "reveal box" and "flag box"
+- [ ] Able to talk through his work well, explaining as he went along
+- [ ] Used a nested loop and `Math.Max` and `Math.Min` to reveal box around the revealed box
+- [ ] A user-facing thoughtful thing: he cleared the console at the top of each input loop
+- [ ] Used `StringBuilder` to render the board output, but decided against it later
+- [ ] Used string interpolation (newish C# capability) to render mine box content
+- [ ] Excellent output message to user to give clear instructions on commands to input
+- [ ] Showed familiarity with debugging
+- [ ] Abstracted the PrintGrid functionality to a method to be able to call it multiple times
+- [ ] Considered the user not knowing the array was 0-based
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+Concerns:
+- [ ] Didn't appear to come super prepared with the solution in mind
+- [ ] I'm not 100% certain he read the specification in detail, but relied on his memory of how minesweeper worked
+- [ ] Very minor: used different terms for the same thing `bombFound` but `MineBox`
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+Other comments:
+- [ ] Created class for `MineBox` and `Board` 
+- [ ] Used multi-dimensional array of `MineBox`es in `Board` 
+- [ ] Used `Random` to set mines randomly around the board
+- [ ] Used a while loop in Program until `bool gameEnded` was reached
+- [ ] Used `Convert.ToInt32` instead of `int.Parse` to get coordinates from console input line
+- [ ] Ran into issues looping and redisplaying the board
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+Questions to ask:
+- [ ] What could you do to take your game logic and render it any way you wanted to (console, HTML, graphical...)
+      Could do a virtual method on `Board` to allow clients to override it to render the board
+- [ ] Why did you choose to have Program.cs "own" the rendering of the board instead of Board?
+- [ ] Could you have Board "own" the rendering without it knowing exactly what it's renderings (strings, icons, HTML elements, etc)?
+- [ ] Explain your choice to use `Convert.Int32`?
+- [ ] You loop over the entire board or parts of the board (nested loops) a couple of times.  How could you abstract that logic while still using it for different purposes?
+      Would have to iterate the board each time. When I explained 
+- [ ] Could you abstract the Game logic to untie it from the rendering and board?