<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://2038/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 11, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Deane Fistick <<a href="mailto:deane.fistick@ecotoh.org">deane.fistick@ecotoh.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi Don,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I recently downloaded Alice 2.3.5 preparing for the coming school year. I was pleased to see that the INT function (in advanced math) is now a number rather than a string.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">However I had some trouble getting it to work properly. I was teaching the kids how to check to make sure the user had entered a whole number when asked.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i>If NumberEntered = Int(NumberEntered)</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>should be true if a whole number is entered – but that doesn’t seem to work.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I did figure out a “work around” by rearranging the equation.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i>If NumberEntered – Int(NumberEntered) = 0</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>seems to work OK.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Although we have a “work around”, the first<b><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>statement is the most straight forward, logical approach, and I would like to use it if possible.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Do you know of any reason why the first<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>If</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>statement shouldn’t work?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I’ve attached a copy of the relevant part of my lesson, which includes more detail and pictures that may help.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Deane Fistick<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">ECOT (Electronic Classroom Of Tomorrow)<o:p></o:p></div></div><span><Int_Function_Problem.docx></span>_______________________________________________<br>alice-teachers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>