alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

[Steven Jang]

Update on item 2): maybe it would be better not to allow "sharing" because
it could encourage student copying code. That's too bad; lots of
possibilities.

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On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Steven Jang <sjang at pacificacademy.org>
wrote:

> It might be too late but I would love to see these added by the Alice team:
> 1) another way to "say" / "think" but which goes to a log screen OR text
> file. This would be a great feature; you can print or write a lot more
> information about an Alice story. This can be a way to review dialog
> between characters  It can help in debugging an Alice world with many
> characters interactions.
> 2) a way to share procedures / functions. Here you divide a big project up
> and have students work on individual characters. They can test out
> their small part w/o having to worry about running out of memory. Once
> they are happy w their characters and procedures, you can export or copy or
> move it to the big Alice world.
> 3) a way to manage the memory demands? Maybe an equivalent to Java
> "import" or c++ "#include". I know this is a lot harder than item 2 which
> is a lot harder than item 1 above.
>
> I would be happy to test these features for you.
> Steve Jang
>
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