alice-teacher Alice 3.3 Backward Compatible with Alice 3.2.5 Files

[Michael L Owen]

Hi Don--

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.


Guess I'll have to rewrite a little code in my examples too [😊]


Mike Owen


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From: alice-teachers <alice-teachers-bounces+mrgrog=outlook.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on behalf of Don Slater via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3.3 Backward Compatible with Alice 3.2.5 Files

Bill,
It is our goal that projects created in 3.2.5 can load and execute in 3.3. As noted in the release notes (http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/92738451/Alice%203%20Release%20Notes), 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.

All the best,

Don Slater

Alice Project
Carnegie Mellon University
Entertainment Technology Center
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Email: dslater at cmu.edu

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> On Aug 23, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Barnum, William via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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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.
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> Will they have any trouble loading and running version Alice 3.2.5 files in Alice 3.3?
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> Bill Barnum
> Computer Science Teacher
> York Community High School
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