alice-teacher Alice 3 equivalent of while events

[Donald Slater]

James,
This feature was also not implemented in Alice 3. AS part of the purpose of Alice 3 was to support the transition to.a traditional programming language, such as Java, we found it difficult implement these features as they were no equivalent features in the languages we were targeting.

All the best,
Don Slater


Alice Project

> On Feb 18, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Vanderhyde, James <vanderhyde at sxu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Is there an Alice 3 equivalent of Alice 2’s while (begin, during, end) events? The only way to halt and action in the middle was to put code in the “during” portion of the event. Then when the condition became false, whatever the code was doing is immediately stopped.
> 
> I found these while events in Alice 2 to be so powerful, that I didn’t even need to teach while loops for any purpose. I think I can do what I want with while loops, but it will be more difficult to teach.
> 
> James
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> James Vanderhyde
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