alice-teacher Question about Strange Behavior -- Alice 2.2

[A. Jeff Goldstein]

Actually, the .a2c file is a class file that we export in Alice.  This is used to "inherit" our own classes of a more specific purpose.
 
Windows tries to help and incorrectly assume it is a compressed file.  
 
Therefore, when downloading we must be sure to check the "all files" option instead of the default compressed files.  It's a nuisance!
 
Thank you,
 
 
Jeff Goldstein
Frank W. Cox High School
Computer Science / Mathematics Teacher
School:  648-5250 
My home website:  http://www.jeffgold.net <http://www.jeffgold.net/>  
 

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From: alice-teachers-bounces+ajeff.goldstein=vbschools.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu on behalf of Don Slater
Sent: Wed 6/27/2012 8:19 AM
To: Alice educators
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Question about Strange Behavior -- Alice 2.2


Sam, 
An Alice .a2c file is a compressed file, and it sounds like the operating system of these students recognize this, and is uncompressing these files for the students automatically... What is the OS of these students? When they are saving the object, have they selected the Files of Type: option as "A2C (Alice Object Files)", and not "All Files"?

Later,
Don Slater
 



 

On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Sam Black wrote:


	Hi, 
	
	I'm using Alice in a 7-week summer engineering camp currently.
	
	I just showed them how to save an object out of Alice (creating an .A2C file) so they could import multiple copies of the newly modified object.
	
	I have just(!) a couple of students who are going through the proper steps, but when they go to import copies in, a folder with all the information exists, but no A2C file.  I have had them do this over and over in multiple locations on their computer to no avail.
	
	Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening and only to a couple of the students?  And/Or, more specifically, how to fix the problem?
	
	Thanks in advance,
	
	Sam Black
	Computer Science
	Lubbock High School
	Lubbock, Texas
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