<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Sandy,<div>I am not quite sure that I understand what is going on… Is he mistakenly creating the recursive call, and it locks up when the error message appears, or is he trying to deliberately move the recursive call to another section of his code?</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure that reinstalling Alice will solve the problem in either case, but I cannot re-duplicate the error if I am not quite sure what is going on. You may send me a copy of the student’s code if you think it will help.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Don Slater</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Sandy Graham <<a href="mailto:sandyg@gvtc.com">sandyg@gvtc.com</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: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -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;">One of my students is working on chapter 8 and his computer keeps locking up. Specifically, when he tries to drag and drop a recursive call, it locks up. Should he reinstall Alice?<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;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Your sister in Christ,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Sandy Graham<o:p></o:p></span></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;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<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>