alice-teacher questions about parameters

[Rex McKanry]

Hi All,

Let me preface that I am very new to Alice and have less than one year experience with it. I am wondering if the problem is that your student created a method at the object level for that specific object and it works great for that one object. Being that it is attached to the one object I do not think it would work for other objects since it is not a world level method. My suggestion would be to recreate the method for the guy object separately. This is because not all objects have the same abilities and bending points. Once these are created your student can change the object name and export the object as a new object and import them with the new method to other projects\worlds when needed.

Hope this helps.
Rex McKanry

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From: alice-teachers-bounces+rmckanry=stchas.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [alice-teachers-bounces+rmckanry=stchas.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Wilkins [dwilkins at richardwinn.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:27 PM
To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: alice-teacher questions about parameters

Hello,
I am fairly new to teaching Alice and have hit a problem. One of my students has written a class-level method called randomgirl2.sit where the object sits down on the park bench. She wrote a parameter in that method called whichPerson and wants to make various people sit using the method.              1st problem:  randomGirl2.lowerbody.leftleg.turn backwards.25 revolutions is the first line but if she drags the obj parameter in, the line changes towhichPerson.turn backwards.25 revolutions.
2nd problem:  when she replaces randomgirl2 in world.my first method with her new object, randomGuy, nothing happens.
The sit method makes use of various subparts and I wonder if that is what is causing the problem. I feel like I am missing something obvious but I can’t find it.

Donna Wilkins
RWA