alice-teacher Alice 2 issue: adding item to array or list takes 1 second

[Michael L Owen]

James, your point is well taken. However, teaching students to troubleshoot is equally important to writing a line of code. Hardly anyone ever gets it right the first time. How many times have you forgotten to add a semicolon :-)


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Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 2 issue: adding item to array or list takes 1 second

Mike, thanks for you response. By this point in the semester, all the students know the “more” options. My point was that setting a variable has default duration 0, and so setting a list or array item should also have default duration 0. Setting an item of a list or an array has no visible effect in the world, and therefore has no reason to take 1 second.

James
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James Vanderhyde
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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Saint Xavier University
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