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<p>Hi Don--</p>
<p>I'm really glad that your team spent some time fixing the problems that crop up regarding joint orientation in Alice3. While it did give students the opportunity to think outside the box and find solutions to an obvious problem, it also increased the time
necessary to finish a project on schedule.</p>
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<p>Guess I'll have to rewrite a little code in my examples too <img class="EmojiInsert" id="OWAEmoji546276" style="vertical-align: bottom;" alt="😊" src="cid:7f374e3c-3e33-48f1-87d6-743df93a9043"></p>
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<p>Mike Owen<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alice Teachers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: alice-teacher Alice 3.3 Backward Compatible with Alice 3.2.5 Files</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Bill,<br>
It is our goal that projects created in 3.2.5 can load and execute in 3.3. As noted in the release notes (<a id="LPlnk199937" href="http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/92738451/Alice%203%20Release%20Notes">http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/92738451/Alice%203%20Release%20Notes</a>),
one of the big Quality Assurance goals was to make sure joint orientation was consistent within classes. This may cause items to act differently in older projects but will make inheriting procedures far more reliable. So there may be projects that do not
execute as originally implemented (i.e. an arm or leg may turn in a different direction).
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Please send to us any 3.2.5 projects that are problematic, particularly those that will not load, an let us know if you have any questions.<br>
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All the best,<br>
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Don Slater<br>
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Alice Project<br>
Carnegie Mellon University<br>
Entertainment Technology Center<br>
700 Technology Drive<br>
Pittsburgh, PA 15219<br>
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Email: dslater@cmu.edu<br>
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I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br>
--- Henry David Thoreau<br>
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The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br>
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> On Aug 23, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Barnum, William via alice-teachers <alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:<br>
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> I'm looking forward to moving my students over to Alice 3.3, but they have already been creating projects with Alice 3.2.5.<br>
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> Will they have any trouble loading and running version Alice 3.2.5 files in Alice 3.3?<br>
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> Bill Barnum<br>
> Computer Science Teacher<br>
> York Community High School<br>
> @Bill_Barnum<br>
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