alice-teacher Collision and walking speed questions

[Lori Fuller]

Thanks I will give those a shot. 

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Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>1. Collision detection in Alice is tricky. I have had students try
>several different approaches, but nothing has really worked as well as I
>would like. There are some tutorials you can read (I found it with a
>Google
>search):http://programminginalice.wordpress.com/tag/collision-detection/
>2. I don't think there's any way to modify those existing controls, so
>you have to write your own controls for the player object. One
>non-obvious feature that will be useful is that you can right-click on
>events (such as "when a key is typed") and change it to something else
>("while a key is pressed").
>James
>--Dr. James VanderhydeMath and Computer ScienceBenedictine
>Collegejvanderhyde at benedictine.eduhttp://vanderhyde.us/~james/pro/
>On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Lori Fuller <lori.fuller at browardschools.com>
>wrote:I have an advanced student among all of my beginners... and he is
>working on a maze game.2 questions:1. In Alice 2.3, is it possible to set
>up a collision indication method? If so, where do I find information on
>this?2. Is there a way to slow down the person object walking while using
>the arrow keys as controllers?
>
>
>thanks,
>Lori Fuller, M.Ed.Monarch High SchoolCareer Technology Department
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