<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I have a student that wants to have a shipwreck(water world) and have the survivors transported to a desert (dirt world)?<br><br>Bruce<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 11/6/12, Ray Ryon <i><Ray.Ryon@indianhills.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ray Ryon <Ray.Ryon@indianhills.edu><br>Subject: Re: <span>alice</span>-teacher Variables<br>To: "alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" <alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu><br>Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 1:24 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1418453720">
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">Prem,</p>
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">The definition I use for a variable is:</p>
<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> A storage area used in a computer program that contains a value.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">I have attached my lecture notes that I use when I introduce variables in Alice. I use the Dann, Cooper, Pausch textbook but I introduce variables earlier than is shown in that book. I start using variables in Chapter 3 with functions
and add it as a 5<sup>th</sup> piece of program code.</p>
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">Ray Ryon</p>
<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">Professor of Computer Software Development</p>
<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">Indian Hills Community College</p>
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoNormal">-----Original Message-----</p>
<p class="yiv1418453720MsoPlainText">> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:23:44 -0800</p>
<p class="yiv1418453720MsoPlainText">> From: Prem Pathuri <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:prem1835213@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=prem1835213@gmail.com">prem1835213@gmail.com</a>></p>
<p class="yiv1418453720MsoPlainText">> Subject: alice-teacher Variables</p>
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoPlainText">> I am having a hard time explaining to one of my students EXACTLY what a variable is and I told him to refer to the book but it made it more confusing for him. So could somebody please give me a simple yet concise >answer?</p>
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<p class="yiv1418453720MsoPlainText">> Prem Pathuri</p>
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