alice-teacher Chapter 5 Zeus Exercise (in Dann, Cooper, Pausch) not working

[Don Slater]

We will try to get a release out with this fix ASAP...

But you might go back to he earlier release, which did not seem to have this problem...

Don Slater

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On Mar 2, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Lance Allen <lanceallen.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to teach this unit in two weeks, will a released version of Alice be available then?
>  
> I'm not sure that I wish to download experimental versions of Alice. You know how the IT guys are about installing BETA versions of software.
> Thank you,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> The December version had a parameter passing bug. The bug has been fixed in our current version, but we are not quite ready to release the version yet. You can still download and try the experimental version as most of the previous features will still work. All additional feature like the Spanish translation or the update menu is still work-in-progress. Download at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aik_min/. Let me know if you find any other bugs.
> 
> Sorry,
> Don Slater
> 
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Rigole, Neil wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > I have a group of student using Alice v2.2 (12/01/11) along with the Learning To Program with Alice textbook. For Chapter 5, the “Zeus” exercise worked through in the chapter, we’re getting a “target value must not be null” when running the code. We’re using when the mouse is clicked on anything event, and it seems that our “target” object parameter is not being recognized in our “prepareToShoot” method. Any clues or advice? This worked for me in the past with the older version of Alice and the same code, but not now.
> >
> > Neil
> >
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