From wbarnum at elmhurst205.org Thu Jan 2 12:54:08 2020 From: wbarnum at elmhurst205.org (Barnum, William) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 11:54:08 -0600 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 YouTube Tutorials Message-ID: Hey all, I've been adding to and reorganizing my Alice 3 tutorials, so I wanted to pass on an updated link. This is part shameless plug and part respectful request for feedback on existing videos and ideas for new topics of videos. http://bit.ly/Alice3Tutorials Bill Barnum Computer Science Teacher York Community High School -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From khessen at tpt.org Thu Jan 2 15:27:54 2020 From: khessen at tpt.org (Katie Hessen) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 20:27:54 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher =?utf-8?b?UEJTS2lkcyDigJxTY2lHaXJsc+KAnSBmZWF0dXJp?= =?utf-8?q?ng_Alice?= Message-ID: <08F075A2-C8D6-4356-88F4-B0C46509BED9@tpt.org> Today is the premiere of a new episode of SciGirls on PBS kids! This episode, titled Cartoon Coders, features 3 middle school girls using Alice to create an animation that urges kids to take action in their own communities. Each episode of SciGirls features a group of real girls (not actors) working on a STEM project they find meaningful. If you watch closely, you will see that the girls in the episode actually used both Alice 2 and 3 to get the variety of scenes and characters that they wanted, but we don't go into this kind of detail in the show. This new episode can be streamed starting today via the PBS apps, and various websites (see below). It also airs on PBS stations nationwide, check your local listings for broadcast times and dates. Watch on the PBS Kids website: https://pbskids.org/scigirls/videos/?keyword=show504 Watch or Download on the SciGirls Educator website: http://www.scigirlsconnect.org/resources/cartoon-coders/ Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_xYSe9Cj7IU Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! Katie Hessen A little background on SciGirls: SciGirls is an Emmy Award-winning PBS television series that explores, encourages and educates girls (and boys!) around science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. Produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and shared with public television stations nationwide, SciGirls? five seasons are packed with STEM energy. In addition to standards-based episodes, children, families and educators everywhere enjoy SciGirls? popular PBSKIDS.org website, hands-on activities and educator workshops. All of SciGirls? resources work together to address one simple but powerful goal: to change the way girls see STEM and the way the world sees girls! Season Five continues the SciGirls STEM adventure with a focus on a critical 21st-century skill: coding. Across five new episodes, smart, creative and real girls?not actors?team up with adult STEM professional role models to track urban wildlife, ?paint? with music, explore Florida?s ocean life, animate, communicate and create?all by using computer coding. As always, SciGirls? animated characters Izzie and Jake are along for the ride, using STEM to solve problems, help people and have fun! SciGirls is produced by Twin Cities PBS, and is made possible by major funding from the National Science Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Cargill Foundation, The Craig Newmark Foundation and the PPG Foundation. Katie Hessen | she, her, hers | STEM Content & Outreach Specialist, SciGirls tpt Twin Cities PBS | 172 East 4th Street | St. Paul, MN 55101 Khessen at tpt.org | o: 651-229-1428 | m: 757-272-3866 TV, Games & Interactive at pbskids.org/SciGirls? | Free guides for educators at SciGirlsconnect.org SciGirls Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the world sees girls! ?On 12/28/19, 9:08 AM, "alice-teachers on behalf of Don Slater" wrote: On Jan 2, the PBSKids program, SciGirls, will air the episode ?Cartoon Coders?, that features girls making an animations using Alice. SciGirls Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the world sees girls! Free guides for educators at SciGirlsconnect.org. See the link below for more information. https://pbskids.org/scigirls Don Slater Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers From pappafotopoulosd at doversherborn.org Thu Jan 2 19:11:14 2020 From: pappafotopoulosd at doversherborn.org (Pappafotopoulos, Dianne) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 19:11:14 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher =?utf-8?b?UEJTS2lkcyDigJxTY2lHaXJsc+KAnSBmZWF0dXJp?= =?utf-8?q?ng_Alice?= In-Reply-To: <08F075A2-C8D6-4356-88F4-B0C46509BED9@tpt.org> References: <08F075A2-C8D6-4356-88F4-B0C46509BED9@tpt.org> Message-ID: Thanks for sharing! Dianne M. Pappafotopoulos Instructional Technology Specialist/Teacher Dover Sherborn Public Schools,157 Farm Street, Dover, MA 02030 phone: 508.785.1730 x7217 - email: pappafotopoulosd at doversherborn.org school website: www.doversherborn.org tech website: integration guide blog: beyond the limits twitter:@dpappa127 On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 5:19 PM Katie Hessen wrote: > Today is the premiere of a new episode of SciGirls on PBS kids! This > episode, titled Cartoon Coders, features 3 middle school girls using Alice > to create an animation that urges kids to take action in their own > communities. Each episode of SciGirls features a group of real girls (not > actors) working on a STEM project they find meaningful. If you watch > closely, you will see that the girls in the episode actually used both > Alice 2 and 3 to get the variety of scenes and characters that they wanted, > but we don't go into this kind of detail in the show. > > This new episode can be streamed starting today via the PBS apps, and > various websites (see below). It also airs on PBS stations nationwide, > check your local listings for broadcast times and dates. > > Watch on the PBS Kids website: > https://pbskids.org/scigirls/videos/?keyword=show504 > Watch or Download on the SciGirls Educator website: > http://www.scigirlsconnect.org/resources/cartoon-coders/ > Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_xYSe9Cj7IU > > Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! > Katie Hessen > > A little background on SciGirls: > SciGirls is an Emmy Award-winning PBS television series that explores, > encourages and educates girls (and boys!) around science, technology, > engineering and math, or STEM. Produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and shared > with public television stations nationwide, SciGirls? five seasons are > packed with STEM energy. In addition to standards-based episodes, children, > families and educators everywhere enjoy SciGirls? popular PBSKIDS.org > website, hands-on activities and educator workshops. All of SciGirls? > resources work together to address one simple but powerful goal: to change > the way girls see STEM and the way the world sees girls! > > Season Five continues the SciGirls STEM adventure with a focus on a > critical 21st-century skill: coding. Across five new episodes, smart, > creative and real girls?not actors?team up with adult STEM professional > role models to track urban wildlife, ?paint? with music, explore Florida?s > ocean life, animate, communicate and create?all by using computer coding. > As always, SciGirls? animated characters Izzie and Jake are along for the > ride, using STEM to solve problems, help people and have fun! > > SciGirls is produced by Twin Cities PBS, and is made possible by major > funding from the National Science Foundation. 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Thanks Matjaz [image: image.png] --- Matjaz Marussig ME ISV Oracle Silver Partner LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig Medium: https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig Office Email: marussig at siol.net Private Email: matjaz.marussig at gmail.com www: http://marussig.si/ Skypename: matjazmarussig Phone: 0038641508427 On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 23:25, Katie Hessen wrote: > Today is the premiere of a new episode of SciGirls on PBS kids! This > episode, titled Cartoon Coders, features 3 middle school girls using Alice > to create an animation that urges kids to take action in their own > communities. Each episode of SciGirls features a group of real girls (not > actors) working on a STEM project they find meaningful. If you watch > closely, you will see that the girls in the episode actually used both > Alice 2 and 3 to get the variety of scenes and characters that they wanted, > but we don't go into this kind of detail in the show. > > This new episode can be streamed starting today via the PBS apps, and > various websites (see below). It also airs on PBS stations nationwide, > check your local listings for broadcast times and dates. > > Watch on the PBS Kids website: > https://pbskids.org/scigirls/videos/?keyword=show504 > Watch or Download on the SciGirls Educator website: > http://www.scigirlsconnect.org/resources/cartoon-coders/ > Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_xYSe9Cj7IU > > Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! > Katie Hessen > > A little background on SciGirls: > SciGirls is an Emmy Award-winning PBS television series that explores, > encourages and educates girls (and boys!) around science, technology, > engineering and math, or STEM. Produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and shared > with public television stations nationwide, SciGirls? five seasons are > packed with STEM energy. In addition to standards-based episodes, children, > families and educators everywhere enjoy SciGirls? popular PBSKIDS.org > website, hands-on activities and educator workshops. All of SciGirls? > resources work together to address one simple but powerful goal: to change > the way girls see STEM and the way the world sees girls! > > Season Five continues the SciGirls STEM adventure with a focus on a > critical 21st-century skill: coding. Across five new episodes, smart, > creative and real girls?not actors?team up with adult STEM professional > role models to track urban wildlife, ?paint? with music, explore Florida?s > ocean life, animate, communicate and create?all by using computer coding. > As always, SciGirls? animated characters Izzie and Jake are along for the > ride, using STEM to solve problems, help people and have fun! > > SciGirls is produced by Twin Cities PBS, and is made possible by major > funding from the National Science Foundation. Additional support is > provided by the Cargill Foundation, The Craig Newmark Foundation and the > PPG Foundation. > > Katie Hessen | she, her, hers | STEM Content & Outreach Specialist, > SciGirls > tpt Twin Cities PBS | 172 East 4th Street | St. Paul, MN 55101 > Khessen at tpt.org | o: 651-229-1428 | m: 757-272-3866 > TV, Games & Interactive at pbskids.org/SciGirls < > http://pbskidsgo.org/scigirls> | Free guides for educators at > SciGirlsconnect.org > SciGirls Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the > world sees girls! > > > ?On 12/28/19, 9:08 AM, "alice-teachers on behalf of Don Slater" > don at alice.org> wrote: > > On Jan 2, the PBSKids program, SciGirls, will air the episode ?Cartoon > Coders?, that features girls making an animations using Alice. > > SciGirls Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how > the world sees girls! > > Free guides for educators at SciGirlsconnect.org. > > See the link below for more information. > > https://pbskids.org/scigirls > > Don Slater > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Jan 6, 2020, at 5:31 AM, Matjaz Marussig wrote: > > Hi, is there some special reason for limiting video to the US? > Thanks > Matjaz > > > > --- > Matjaz Marussig ME > ISV > Oracle Silver Partner > > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig > Medium: https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig > Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig > Office Email: marussig at siol.net > Private Email: matjaz.marussig at gmail.com > www: http://marussig.si/ > Skypename: matjazmarussig > Phone: 0038641508427 > > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 23:25, Katie Hessen > wrote: > Today is the premiere of a new episode of SciGirls on PBS kids! This episode, titled Cartoon Coders, features 3 middle school girls using Alice to create an animation that urges kids to take action in their own communities. Each episode of SciGirls features a group of real girls (not actors) working on a STEM project they find meaningful. If you watch closely, you will see that the girls in the episode actually used both Alice 2 and 3 to get the variety of scenes and characters that they wanted, but we don't go into this kind of detail in the show. > > This new episode can be streamed starting today via the PBS apps, and various websites (see below). It also airs on PBS stations nationwide, check your local listings for broadcast times and dates. > > Watch on the PBS Kids website: https://pbskids.org/scigirls/videos/?keyword=show504 > Watch or Download on the SciGirls Educator website: http://www.scigirlsconnect.org/resources/cartoon-coders/ > Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_xYSe9Cj7IU > > Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! > Katie Hessen > > A little background on SciGirls: > SciGirls is an Emmy Award-winning PBS television series that explores, encourages and educates girls (and boys!) around science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. Produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and shared with public television stations nationwide, SciGirls? five seasons are packed with STEM energy. In addition to standards-based episodes, children, families and educators everywhere enjoy SciGirls? popular PBSKIDS.org website, hands-on activities and educator workshops. All of SciGirls? resources work together to address one simple but powerful goal: to change the way girls see STEM and the way the world sees girls! > > Season Five continues the SciGirls STEM adventure with a focus on a critical 21st-century skill: coding. Across five new episodes, smart, creative and real girls?not actors?team up with adult STEM professional role models to track urban wildlife, ?paint? with music, explore Florida?s ocean life, animate, communicate and create?all by using computer coding. As always, SciGirls? animated characters Izzie and Jake are along for the ride, using STEM to solve problems, help people and have fun! > > SciGirls is produced by Twin Cities PBS, and is made possible by major funding from the National Science Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Cargill Foundation, The Craig Newmark Foundation and the PPG Foundation. > > Katie Hessen | she, her, hers | STEM Content & Outreach Specialist, SciGirls > tpt Twin Cities PBS | 172 East 4th Street | St. Paul, MN 55101 > Khessen at tpt.org | o: 651-229-1428 | m: 757-272-3866 > TV, Games & Interactive at pbskids.org/SciGirls > | Free guides for educators at SciGirlsconnect.org > SciGirls Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the world sees girls! > > > ?On 12/28/19, 9:08 AM, "alice-teachers on behalf of Don Slater" on behalf of don at alice.org > wrote: > > On Jan 2, the PBSKids program, SciGirls, will air the episode ?Cartoon Coders?, that features girls making an animations using Alice. > > SciGirls Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the world sees girls! > > Free guides for educators at SciGirlsconnect.org. > > See the link below for more information. > > https://pbskids.org/scigirls > > Don Slater > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I believe that Alice VR doesn't currently support them, but I am wondering if it will in the future. I'm really excited about Alice VR. If the Oculus Quests will eventually be supported, I will just wait. Otherwise I'd like to start scrounging around for resources to purchase something that will. Thanks, Bill Barnum York Community High School -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From litomd at gmail.com Sat Jan 11 20:42:37 2020 From: litomd at gmail.com (Leonel Morales) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:42:37 -0600 Subject: alice-teacher Oculus Quests and Alice VR In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, In theory with Oculus Link you can connect an Oculus Quest to a PC and use it as if it was a Rift. Oculus Link seems to be in beta testing so it may not work correctly: https://www.oculus.com/blog/play-rift-content-on-quest-with-oculus-link-available-now-in-beta/?locale=en_US I have an Oculus Quest and plan to test it with Link and the Alice player soon. Hope Oculus Quest gets supported by Alice soon. Best, Leonel 2020-01-11 12:11 GMT-06:00, Barnum, William : > Hey all, > > The library in my school has a few Oculus Quests. > > I believe that Alice VR doesn't currently support them, but I am wondering > if it will in the future. > > I'm really excited about Alice VR. If the Oculus Quests will eventually be > supported, I will just wait. Otherwise I'd like to start scrounging around > for resources to purchase something that will. > > Thanks, > Bill Barnum > York Community High School > From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Sun Jan 12 09:03:37 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:03:37 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Export a person in Alice 3 Message-ID: Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. The class export system seems to be completely different. James ? 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If Alice allowed the creation of properties and variables of the type adultPersonResource, teenPersonResource, childPersonResource, etc, then one could create a class property of that resource with the specific values of the avatar, which would be exported with the class. That may be worth investigating for future releases. But I did come up with a work-around, a hack, actually ;-) Using the TeenPerson class 1) Create a method for the person class, name it something like setMyResource? 2) Inside that method, use the setTeenPersonResource to build the avatar. (This will not change the appearance of the avatar in the scene until the method setMyResource is called). See the attached screen shot. 3) You may now export this class, and the setMyResource method, with the specific values for the avatar will be exported as part of this method. 4) When you import this class into a new project, call the setMyResource method as the first line of code, and the avatar in the scene will take on the desired appearance at runtime. I have also attached a sample project that you might play with. It is a hack, but it is something until until we come up with a more elegant solution. Lete me know if you have any questions. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. The class export system seems to be completely different. > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: p1.png Type: image/png Size: 91935 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Jan 12, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: James, You are correct, that because the Alice 3 Export function exports essentially a Java class, methods, functions, class properties of the class will be exported. But not the particular characteristics fo an object of that class. If Alice allowed the creation of properties and variables of the type adultPersonResource, teenPersonResource, childPersonResource, etc, then one could create a class property of that resource with the specific values of the avatar, which would be exported with the class. That may be worth investigating for future releases. But I did come up with a work-around, a hack, actually ;-) Using the TeenPerson class 1) Create a method for the person class, name it something like setMyResource? 2) Inside that method, use the setTeenPersonResource to build the avatar. (This will not change the appearance of the avatar in the scene until the method setMyResource is called). See the attached screen shot. 3) You may now export this class, and the setMyResource method, with the specific values for the avatar will be exported as part of this method. 4) When you import this class into a new project, call the setMyResource method as the first line of code, and the avatar in the scene will take on the desired appearance at runtime. I have also attached a sample project that you might play with. It is a hack, but it is something until until we come up with a more elegant solution. Lete me know if you have any questions. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. The class export system seems to be completely different. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sincerely, Eric > On Jan 11, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Leonel Morales wrote: > > Hi, > > In theory with Oculus Link you can connect an Oculus Quest to a PC and > use it as if it was a Rift. Oculus Link seems to be in beta testing so > it may not work correctly: > > https://www.oculus.com/blog/play-rift-content-on-quest-with-oculus-link-available-now-in-beta/?locale=en_US > > I have an Oculus Quest and plan to test it with Link and the Alice player soon. > > Hope Oculus Quest gets supported by Alice soon. > > Best, > > Leonel > > 2020-01-11 12:11 GMT-06:00, Barnum, William : >> Hey all, >> >> The library in my school has a few Oculus Quests. >> >> I believe that Alice VR doesn't currently support them, but I am wondering >> if it will in the future. >> >> I'm really excited about Alice VR. If the Oculus Quests will eventually be >> supported, I will just wait. Otherwise I'd like to start scrounging around >> for resources to purchase something that will. >> >> Thanks, >> Bill Barnum >> York Community High School >> > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Mon Jan 13 13:11:57 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:11:57 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 very sluggish Message-ID: <12B687FE-F5DB-4B9F-BF46-E1BEF55E9F5F@sxu.edu> So I tried to use Alice 3 in class today for the first time, in the same lab with the same computers I have been using Alice 2 for years. They have embedded Intel graphics chips. Alice 3 is very sluggish. You have to wait half a second for the camera control to light up when hovering over it. Clicking in the scene does not always sleet objects. Sometimes the whole scene does not update until you do something else. The ?Help with Graphics Problems? features also reports that clicking in the scene is working sub optimally. The drivers are all up to date. Where are the graphics options on Alice 3 so that performance is better? These machines are not new, but they?re not that old, either. They should be able to handle an application like this. They run Unity with no problem, for example. What can I do to make Alice 3 usable? It?s going to take forever for the students to accomplish anything in this class. Is there anything we can do to improve responsiveness of the application? James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From don at alice.org Mon Jan 13 14:05:01 2020 From: don at alice.org (Donald Slater) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:05:01 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher Export a person in Alice 3 In-Reply-To: <69CC98D7-633E-4047-8EBD-05FA1417EFF9@sxu.edu> References: <10F08F24-069A-4598-A051-52DFF3CE0C56@andrew.cmu.edu> <69CC98D7-633E-4047-8EBD-05FA1417EFF9@sxu.edu> Message-ID: Jim, This is a great question, and one that should work better than my hack. Alice 3 does provide access to class constructors (Go to Window: Preferences and select the Constructors menu option - see attached screen shot) And in fact the constructor for that Person class, when enabled, allows you to design your avatar. Unfortunately, when you export that class, the modified constructor does not get exported with the rest of the class.I hope that this is something we can fix in future releases, as it would be the more elegant, and OOP-based, solution. I am sorry, but thank you for identifying this issue for us. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Jan 13, 2020, at 9:44 AM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > Don, thanks. In Java, you can extend a class with the only new thing being a new constructor that sets all the property values the way you want them. Is there a way to do this in Alice 3? > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > On Jan 12, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: > > James, > You are correct, that because the Alice 3 Export function exports essentially a Java class, methods, functions, class properties of the class will be exported. But not the particular characteristics fo an object of that class. > > If Alice allowed the creation of properties and variables of the type adultPersonResource, teenPersonResource, childPersonResource, etc, then one could create a class property of that resource with the specific values of the avatar, which would be exported with the class. That may be worth investigating for future releases. > > But I did come up with a work-around, a hack, actually ;-) Using the TeenPerson class > > 1) Create a method for the person class, name it something like setMyResource? > 2) Inside that method, use the setTeenPersonResource to build the avatar. (This will not change the appearance of the avatar in the scene until the method setMyResource is called). See the attached screen shot. > 3) You may now export this class, and the setMyResource method, with the specific values for the avatar will be exported as part of this method. > 4) When you import this class into a new project, call the setMyResource method as the first line of code, and the avatar in the scene will take on the desired appearance at runtime. > > I have also attached a sample project that you might play with. > > It is a hack, but it is something until until we come up with a more elegant solution. > > Lete me know if you have any questions. > > All the best, > Don Slater > > Alice Project > > > >> On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: >> >> Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. 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All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Jan 13, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > So I tried to use Alice 3 in class today for the first time, in the same lab with the same computers I have been using Alice 2 for years. They have embedded Intel graphics chips. Alice 3 is very sluggish. You have to wait half a second for the camera control to light up when hovering over it. Clicking in the scene does not always sleet objects. Sometimes the whole scene does not update until you do something else. The ?Help with Graphics Problems? features also reports that clicking in the scene is working sub optimally. The drivers are all up to date. > > Where are the graphics options on Alice 3 so that performance is better? These machines are not new, but they?re not that old, either. They should be able to handle an application like this. They run Unity with no problem, for example. What can I do to make Alice 3 usable? It?s going to take forever for the students to accomplish anything in this class. Is there anything we can do to improve responsiveness of the application? > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From HautmannC at calvertnet.k12.md.us Mon Jan 13 15:06:48 2020 From: HautmannC at calvertnet.k12.md.us (Hautmann, Carl) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:06:48 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Moving a hovercraft/drone Message-ID: I have a few students working on a project where they are trying to move a drone. When they press a key, they are trying to spin a propeller. They have assigned it to one set of keys but are trying to move it to the arrow keys and it is not working. Is there a way to assign the action to an alphumeric set as well as the arrow keys? Carl J. Hautmann Director of Bands Northern Middle School 413-550-9230 "I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning" -Plato -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Mon Jan 13 15:39:02 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:39:02 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Export a person in Alice 3 In-Reply-To: References: <10F08F24-069A-4598-A051-52DFF3CE0C56@andrew.cmu.edu> <69CC98D7-633E-4047-8EBD-05FA1417EFF9@sxu.edu> Message-ID: <9FD329B9-3CB7-4762-96DF-A6237922D226@sxu.edu> Don, thanks. One more question. It looks to me like you can?t export classes in Alice 3 at all. All you can do is customize existing classes, and export the customizations. You can?t create your own classes. For example, you can?t create one subclass of Fox called FancyFox and another subclass called FancierFox, two classes that do different things, so that some of your objects are FancyFoxes and some are FancierFoxes. Because when you import a class, or even instantiate a class from ?My Classes? in the gallery, it does not create a new class; it just adds the custom methods, etc., to the built-in Fox class. Or am I misunderstanding this? James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Jan 13, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: Jim, This is a great question, and one that should work better than my hack. Alice 3 does provide access to class constructors (Go to Window: Preferences and select the Constructors menu option - see attached screen shot) And in fact the constructor for that Person class, when enabled, allows you to design your avatar. Unfortunately, when you export that class, the modified constructor does not get exported with the rest of the class.I hope that this is something we can fix in future releases, as it would be the more elegant, and OOP-based, solution. I am sorry, but thank you for identifying this issue for us. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Jan 13, 2020, at 9:44 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: Don, thanks. In Java, you can extend a class with the only new thing being a new constructor that sets all the property values the way you want them. Is there a way to do this in Alice 3? James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Jan 12, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: James, You are correct, that because the Alice 3 Export function exports essentially a Java class, methods, functions, class properties of the class will be exported. But not the particular characteristics fo an object of that class. If Alice allowed the creation of properties and variables of the type adultPersonResource, teenPersonResource, childPersonResource, etc, then one could create a class property of that resource with the specific values of the avatar, which would be exported with the class. That may be worth investigating for future releases. But I did come up with a work-around, a hack, actually ;-) Using the TeenPerson class 1) Create a method for the person class, name it something like setMyResource? 2) Inside that method, use the setTeenPersonResource to build the avatar. (This will not change the appearance of the avatar in the scene until the method setMyResource is called). See the attached screen shot. 3) You may now export this class, and the setMyResource method, with the specific values for the avatar will be exported as part of this method. 4) When you import this class into a new project, call the setMyResource method as the first line of code, and the avatar in the scene will take on the desired appearance at runtime. I have also attached a sample project that you might play with. It is a hack, but it is something until until we come up with a more elegant solution. Lete me know if you have any questions. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. The class export system seems to be completely different. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From don at alice.org Tue Jan 14 07:18:59 2020 From: don at alice.org (Donald Slater) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 07:18:59 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher Export a person in Alice 3 In-Reply-To: <9FD329B9-3CB7-4762-96DF-A6237922D226@sxu.edu> References: <10F08F24-069A-4598-A051-52DFF3CE0C56@andrew.cmu.edu> <69CC98D7-633E-4047-8EBD-05FA1417EFF9@sxu.edu> <9FD329B9-3CB7-4762-96DF-A6237922D226@sxu.edu> Message-ID: James, You are correct. The Export / Import is not true sub-classing in the Alice system. It is instead more of an export and merge new features into an existing class. It was decided by the team that this concept was better handled in the Alice - NetBeans curriculum - students import their projects into NetBeans where the Project is now a true Java project, with access to the entire Java Class Library and a inheritance would be better implemented. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Jan 13, 2020, at 3:39 PM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > Don, thanks. One more question. It looks to me like you can?t export classes in Alice 3 at all. All you can do is customize existing classes, and export the customizations. You can?t create your own classes. For example, you can?t create one subclass of Fox called FancyFox and another subclass called FancierFox, two classes that do different things, so that some of your objects are FancyFoxes and some are FancierFoxes. Because when you import a class, or even instantiate a class from ?My Classes? in the gallery, it does not create a new class; it just adds the custom methods, etc., to the built-in Fox class. > > Or am I misunderstanding this? > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > On Jan 13, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: > > Jim, > This is a great question, and one that should work better than my hack. > > Alice 3 does provide access to class constructors (Go to Window: Preferences and select the Constructors menu option - see attached screen shot) > > And in fact the constructor for that Person class, when enabled, allows you to design your avatar. > > Unfortunately, when you export that class, the modified constructor does not get exported with the rest of the class.I hope that this is something we can fix in future releases, as it would be the more elegant, and OOP-based, solution. > > I am sorry, but thank you for identifying this issue for us. > > All the best, > Don Slater > > Alice Project > > > > > >> On Jan 13, 2020, at 9:44 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: >> >> Don, thanks. In Java, you can extend a class with the only new thing being a new constructor that sets all the property values the way you want them. Is there a way to do this in Alice 3? >> >> James >> ? >> James Vanderhyde >> Associate Professor and Department Chair >> Computer Science >> Saint Xavier University >> 3700 W. 103rd St. >> Chicago, IL 60655 >> 773-298-3454 >> >> On Jan 12, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: >> >> James, >> You are correct, that because the Alice 3 Export function exports essentially a Java class, methods, functions, class properties of the class will be exported. But not the particular characteristics fo an object of that class. >> >> If Alice allowed the creation of properties and variables of the type adultPersonResource, teenPersonResource, childPersonResource, etc, then one could create a class property of that resource with the specific values of the avatar, which would be exported with the class. That may be worth investigating for future releases. >> >> But I did come up with a work-around, a hack, actually ;-) Using the TeenPerson class >> >> 1) Create a method for the person class, name it something like setMyResource? >> 2) Inside that method, use the setTeenPersonResource to build the avatar. (This will not change the appearance of the avatar in the scene until the method setMyResource is called). See the attached screen shot. >> 3) You may now export this class, and the setMyResource method, with the specific values for the avatar will be exported as part of this method. >> 4) When you import this class into a new project, call the setMyResource method as the first line of code, and the avatar in the scene will take on the desired appearance at runtime. >> >> I have also attached a sample project that you might play with. >> >> It is a hack, but it is something until until we come up with a more elegant solution. >> >> Lete me know if you have any questions. >> >> All the best, >> Don Slater >> >> Alice Project >> >> >> >>> On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: >>> >>> Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. The class export system seems to be completely different. >>> >>> James >>> ? >>> James Vanderhyde >>> Associate Professor and Department Chair >>> Computer Science >>> Saint Xavier University >>> 3700 W. 103rd St. >>> Chicago, IL 60655 >>> 773-298-3454 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> alice-teachers mailing list >>> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >>> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >>> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I created a world method called startPropellers while isActive do together turn each propeller to the right one revolution in ? second, abruptly For the events When S is pressed, set isActive to true (I am using A is a toggle switch on) When A is pressed, set isActive to false When U is pressed, if isActive, move up ? meter in ? second, abruptly. ? the drone will not move up if isActive is false When D is pressed, if isActive, move down ? meter in ? second, abruptly ? the drone will not move down if isActive is false When the variable isActive changes, do the startPropellers method Let the arrow keys move the drone ? These will turn the drone left and right, move the drone forward (up key) and backward (down key) I have attached an html document of the code for printing, a copy of the working world, and a copy of the drone.a2c class if anyone does not have it in their gallery. Let me know if you are using Alice 3, as the events will be different (and I would be curious as to what model the students were using.) Please let me know if you have any questions. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Jan 13, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Hautmann, Carl wrote: > > I have a few students working on a project where they are trying to move a drone. When they press a key, they are trying to spin a propeller. They have assigned it to one set of keys but are trying to move it to the arrow keys and it is not working. Is there a way to assign the action to an alphumeric set as well as the arrow keys? > > Carl J. 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Then after creating an object from the imported class, the user could go to the scene editor and set the resource right there, using the constant that was defined. Then the avatar would appear correctly in the scene, without having to call a method at runtime. I could also wish there was a default person, rather than the random person that appears as the avatar placeholder. I also liked the handful of named characters in Alice 2 that could be used for simple examples (Josh, Nataly, etc.). It would be difficult to make these inclusive for an official release, so maybe it?s better to leave them out. If there was a way to define person resource properties, it would be easy to make several avatar characters, saving each as a constant property in the class. Each student could create a library of characters, or I could create a library of characters to share with them, that they could easily import and we could use together. That sounds very useful. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Jan 12, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: James, You are correct, that because the Alice 3 Export function exports essentially a Java class, methods, functions, class properties of the class will be exported. But not the particular characteristics fo an object of that class. If Alice allowed the creation of properties and variables of the type adultPersonResource, teenPersonResource, childPersonResource, etc, then one could create a class property of that resource with the specific values of the avatar, which would be exported with the class. That may be worth investigating for future releases. But I did come up with a work-around, a hack, actually ;-) Using the TeenPerson class 1) Create a method for the person class, name it something like setMyResource? 2) Inside that method, use the setTeenPersonResource to build the avatar. (This will not change the appearance of the avatar in the scene until the method setMyResource is called). See the attached screen shot. 3) You may now export this class, and the setMyResource method, with the specific values for the avatar will be exported as part of this method. 4) When you import this class into a new project, call the setMyResource method as the first line of code, and the avatar in the scene will take on the desired appearance at runtime. I have also attached a sample project that you might play with. It is a hack, but it is something until until we come up with a more elegant solution. Lete me know if you have any questions. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: Hello, everyone. I have made the jump from Alice 2 to Alice 3. Is there any guide to Alice 3 for long-time users of Alice 2? I am hitting a problem right away. In Alice 2, I had each of my students create an ?avatar? using the He/she builder, export the object, and use it in every one of their homework assignments. I can?t find a way to export a carefully crafted person in Alice 3 for use in other projects. The class export system seems to be completely different. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Tue Jan 14 11:31:32 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:31:32 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Export a person in Alice 3 In-Reply-To: References: <10F08F24-069A-4598-A051-52DFF3CE0C56@andrew.cmu.edu> <69CC98D7-633E-4047-8EBD-05FA1417EFF9@sxu.edu> <9FD329B9-3CB7-4762-96DF-A6237922D226@sxu.edu> Message-ID: <1DA71501-0447-41E4-9EF3-A908F2992334@sxu.edu> Don, I see. That makes sense, although it is not what I want right now. I also think a lot of tutorials are not explaining this correctly. The textbook (Dann, Slater, Paoletti, Culyba) seems to be OK, though, because it talks about exporting the procedure code, not about exporting a class. What?s weird about this feature to me, is that when you are working in Java and you use a library, you use the library?s hierarchy, and you can?t inject code into arbitrary points in the library. You can only extend their classes to do what you want. This is opposite what Alice 3 allows you to do: you do inject code into the hierarchy, and you can?t create your own classes. I was thinking of the Alice 3 gallery hierarchy like a Java class library, and it really isn?t. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Jan 14, 2020, at 6:18 AM, Donald Slater > wrote: James, You are correct. The Export / Import is not true sub-classing in the Alice system. It is instead more of an export and merge new features into an existing class. It was decided by the team that this concept was better handled in the Alice - NetBeans curriculum - students import their projects into NetBeans where the Project is now a true Java project, with access to the entire Java Class Library and a inheritance would be better implemented. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Jan 13, 2020, at 3:39 PM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: Don, thanks. One more question. It looks to me like you can?t export classes in Alice 3 at all. All you can do is customize existing classes, and export the customizations. You can?t create your own classes. For example, you can?t create one subclass of Fox called FancyFox and another subclass called FancierFox, two classes that do different things, so that some of your objects are FancyFoxes and some are FancierFoxes. Because when you import a class, or even instantiate a class from ?My Classes? in the gallery, it does not create a new class; it just adds the custom methods, etc., to the built-in Fox class. Or am I misunderstanding this? James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Garth Flint Technology Coordinator Missoula Catholic Schools (406)-531-7497 On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:14 PM Barnum, William wrote: > Hey all, > > Sorry to belabor the discussion of Alice VR. > > I was looking at the hardware requirements for the Oculus Rift S > and > it seems like they want a pretty pricey graphics card (over $200). > > Assuming someone only wanted to use it for Alice, is this necessary? > > Thanks, > Bill > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Fri Jan 17 10:07:16 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:07:16 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 very sluggish In-Reply-To: <6D40E448-054C-4031-8C3F-86F43A4E974B@alice.org> References: <12B687FE-F5DB-4B9F-BF46-E1BEF55E9F5F@sxu.edu> <6D40E448-054C-4031-8C3F-86F43A4E974B@alice.org> Message-ID: In case anyone is interested, it turns out that the computers I am using have an older Core i5 CPU (maybe about 8 years old) with integrated graphics, and Intel does not have a graphics driver for Windows 10 for that CPU. My solution is to abandon our classroom (the one with instruction incorporated into the design) and go to a different classroom that has newer Intel processors whose graphics are compatible with Windows 10. The other classrooms are not ideal for instructional purposes, but at least the software works. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Jan 13, 2020, at 1:14 PM, Don Slater > wrote: James, I have found the following regarding your question. If any members of the community have any insights, we would appreciate any and all thoughts you may have: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000036462/graphics-drivers/graphics-for-5th-generation-intel-processors.html https://www.pvladov.com/2013/01/improve-intel-hd-graphics-performance.html https://www.howtogeek.com/245592/how-to-improve-gaming-performance-with-intel-hd-graphics-chips/ I am sorry that I do not have a magic bullet for you, at this time. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Jan 13, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: So I tried to use Alice 3 in class today for the first time, in the same lab with the same computers I have been using Alice 2 for years. They have embedded Intel graphics chips. Alice 3 is very sluggish. You have to wait half a second for the camera control to light up when hovering over it. Clicking in the scene does not always sleet objects. Sometimes the whole scene does not update until you do something else. The ?Help with Graphics Problems? features also reports that clicking in the scene is working sub optimally. The drivers are all up to date. Where are the graphics options on Alice 3 so that performance is better? These machines are not new, but they?re not that old, either. They should be able to handle an application like this. They run Unity with no problem, for example. What can I do to make Alice 3 usable? It?s going to take forever for the students to accomplish anything in this class. Is there anything we can do to improve responsiveness of the application? James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From don at alice.org Wed Jan 22 15:20:51 2020 From: don at alice.org (Donald Slater) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:20:51 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher Alice Contact: You need Alice support or want to report a bug In-Reply-To: <55682DB8-9162-4754-A2DC-5B81814F777E@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <07adca1541fc6ef9f3f8cac470377ef3@www.alice.org> <55682DB8-9162-4754-A2DC-5B81814F777E@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <968162F3-E944-4F77-93BE-CEC425C261BF@andrew.cmu.edu> Geovanni, Don, and everyone, I am sorry for the delay in my response to this. I had remembered reports of this several years ago and I was searching through our archives to see if I could what we had said then. It is interesting that we have not had reports of this for the last couple of years. At the time we stated that Alice would have problems with the Surface, because at that time the surface was essentially a tablet. For the Pro we had recommended updating the video drivers for the graphics card, not the usual Microsoft bundled and more generic updates but to use to the graphics card's manufacturer driver updates for. And the archives indicated that this seemed to work. I have no idea if this advice still holds, and I wish to echo Eric: if anyone in the Alice community is successfully using Alice 2 (specifically) with the Surface Pro, we would like to hear from you. And if you are have similar (or other) problems, we would like to hear that as well. Thank you you patience, and your help. All the best, Alice Project > On Jan 22, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Eric Brown wrote: > > Anyone know someone with a surface pro so we can try to test this? > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: "noreply at cmu.edu " > >> Subject: Alice Contact: You need Alice support or want to report a bug >> Date: January 22, 2020 at 7:59:38 AM PST >> To: ewbrown at cmu.edu , dslater at andrew.cmu.edu >> >> First Name >> Don >> Last Name >> Reichman >> Email >> reichmad at mccc.edu >> Reason For Contacting Us >> You need Alice support or want to report a bug >> What version of Alice are you using? >> Alice 2 >> Comment >> I am a professor of CS and a long-time user of Alice 2.x with my introductory CS course. During my first meeting with my students for the spring semester, one student experienced a black screen in the output window of Alice 2.5.4. Alice loaded properly except for the black output screen. >> >> The student did contact you yesterday and I wanted to support his issue with more details. He is running a Surface Pro (recent) with Windows 10 pro, not sure of the video card. He uninstalled and reinstalled without success. >> >> Any advise would be appreciated. >> >> ~Don Reichman > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c.r.thomas at k12.wv.us Thu Jan 23 07:45:53 2020 From: c.r.thomas at k12.wv.us (Carolyn Thomas) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:45:53 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Alice Contact: You need Alice support or want to report a bug In-Reply-To: <968162F3-E944-4F77-93BE-CEC425C261BF@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <07adca1541fc6ef9f3f8cac470377ef3@www.alice.org> <55682DB8-9162-4754-A2DC-5B81814F777E@andrew.cmu.edu>, <968162F3-E944-4F77-93BE-CEC425C261BF@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: My students use Alice 3 and we often use a Surface Pro with no problems. Carolyn Thomas, NBCT Coding, App, and Game Design Class Blog - http://jrtistudios.edublogs.org/ [cid:008aba6c-7bd0-4888-9a20-b1321a3e7ddb] James Rumsey Technical Institute 3274 Hedgesville Road Martinsburg, WV 25403 304-754-7925 Skype - live:.cid.b32a37a949bce5d3 ________________________________ From: alice-teachers on behalf of Donald Slater Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 3:20 PM To: Eric Brown ; reichmad at mccc.edu ; Alice Teachers ; Gioesc5051 at gmail.com Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice Contact: You need Alice support or want to report a bug [EXTERNAL SENDER]: Do not click links, open attachments or reply to this email unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Geovanni, Don, and everyone, I am sorry for the delay in my response to this. I had remembered reports of this several years ago and I was searching through our archives to see if I could what we had said then. It is interesting that we have not had reports of this for the last couple of years. At the time we stated that Alice would have problems with the Surface, because at that time the surface was essentially a tablet. For the Pro we had recommended updating the video drivers for the graphics card, not the usual Microsoft bundled and more generic updates but to use to the graphics card's manufacturer driver updates for. And the archives indicated that this seemed to work. I have no idea if this advice still holds, and I wish to echo Eric: if anyone in the Alice community is successfully using Alice 2 (specifically) with the Surface Pro, we would like to hear from you. And if you are have similar (or other) problems, we would like to hear that as well. Thank you you patience, and your help. All the best, Alice Project On Jan 22, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Eric Brown > wrote: Anyone know someone with a surface pro so we can try to test this? Begin forwarded message: From: "noreply at cmu.edu" > Subject: Alice Contact: You need Alice support or want to report a bug Date: January 22, 2020 at 7:59:38 AM PST To: ewbrown at cmu.edu, dslater at andrew.cmu.edu First Name Don Last Name Reichman Email reichmad at mccc.edu Reason For Contacting Us You need Alice support or want to report a bug What version of Alice are you using? Alice 2 Comment I am a professor of CS and a long-time user of Alice 2.x with my introductory CS course. During my first meeting with my students for the spring semester, one student experienced a black screen in the output window of Alice 2.5.4. Alice loaded properly except for the black output screen. The student did contact you yesterday and I wanted to support his issue with more details. He is running a Surface Pro (recent) with Windows 10 pro, not sure of the video card. He uninstalled and reinstalled without success. 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