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<div>There is a certain amount of glee when a student discovers bugs -- in anything. It's as if they weren't yet taught that bugs are a way of life and you'll never squash them all. Then again, you're probably right to move on and prioritize this one into
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Don Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Alice educators <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, March 10, 2014 4:36 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Alice Teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: alice-teacher Alice 2 - Possible Bug in Alice built-in Tutorial 4 (lunar lander)<br>
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At this time, there is no plan in place to fix this bug… The tutorials were created as part of a graduate student research project, and this bug has been in the tutorial since 2005. This is a bug in the tutorial framework itself. It is not a bug in Alice, or
as the result of being used on any particular platform or operating system.
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<div>It is actually only in the last year that we have started to receive reports of this bug with any frequency, (which is somewhat curious, but another topic), and because there is a relatively trivial work around, it has not been high on our priority list.
But with the number of reports we have been receiving in this past year, it is a topic we will revisit.</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Don Slater</div>
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<div>On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Don Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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This is a known bug in Alice 2, and has existed at least since Alice 2.2. The workaround is to click on the next button, which will take you to the next step in the tutorial, correctly set, and you will be able to finish the tutorial at that point.
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<div>Later,</div>
<div>Don Slater</div>
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<div>On Mar 10, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Deane Fistick <<a href="mailto:deane.fistick@ecotoh.org">deane.fistick@ecotoh.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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One of my students discovered a possible Bug in Alice built-in Tutorial 4 (lunar lander) in the Help -> Tutorials menu. I tried it and got the same error message within the tutorial.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are using Alice 2.4.1 on Windows 7 machines.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you get to the place in the tutorial that has you add the “beachChair” to the world, then click “next”, the tutorial tells you that you’ve made a mistake. (SEE PICTURE BELOW)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are we both doing something wrong or is there a bug – possibly 2.4.1 isn’t quite compatible with the tutorial?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Deane<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Deane Fistick<o:p></o:p></div>
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Electronic Classroom Of Tomorrow (ECOT)<o:p></o:p></div>
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