alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

Donald Slater dslater at andrew.cmu.edu
Sun Jan 10 16:27:44 EST 2016 

Thank you for your interest an support of Alice. These re very interesting ideas and I will bring them to the attention of the rest of the team.

For number 2, in Alice 3, it is now possible to import and export classes that contain procedures and functions for that class. 

See the following links on You Tube:

	Basic Import / Export: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXhZZMZawis&feature=youtu.be
	Export Classes Alice 3.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNqDdHmvho&feature=youtu.be
	Importing a Class in Alice 3.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XprEvcqjgY&feature=youtu.be

Yes, there are some concerns about student copying code, but as Alice 3 is designed to transition to Java, understanding and being able to work with inheritance is an important concept, and we feel that the import / export feature is important in that understanding.

All the best,
Don Slater

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

Email: dslater at cmu.edu

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> On Jan 9, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Steven Jang via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> It might be too late but I would love to see these added by the Alice team:
> 1) another way to "say" / "think" but which goes to a log screen OR text file. This would be a great feature; you can print or write a lot more information about an Alice story. This can be a way to review dialog between characters  It can help in debugging an Alice world with many characters interactions. 
> 2) a way to share procedures / functions. Here you divide a big project up and have students work on individual characters. They can test out their small part w/o having to worry about running out of memory. Once they are happy w their characters and procedures, you can export or copy or move it to the big Alice world.
> 3) a way to manage the memory demands? Maybe an equivalent to Java "import" or c++ "#include". I know this is a lot harder than item 2 which is a lot harder than item 1 above.
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> I would be happy to test these features for you.
> Steve Jang
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> My IT department usually needs a pretty good lead time if I want to install
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> I was wondering if there are any plans to release a new version of Alice 3.
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> Thanks,
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> We are working on the next release of Alice 3, but it will not be out until early March, and our expectation is that it would be the version to use in the 2016-2017 academic year.
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> Please let me know if you have another questions.
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> All the best,
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> > On Jan 8, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Barnum, William via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <javascript:;>> wrote:
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