alice-teacher Alice 3.x

[Donald Slater]

Yvonne,
I am glad the videos were helpful… 

Recursion is one possibility, but the memory overhead might eventually cause Alice to crash…

I put this video together demonstrating a SimpleGame Control loop which might be helpful… Please let me know if you have any questions…

	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332970/SimpleGameControl.mp4 <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332970/SimpleGameControl.mp4>

All the best,
Don Slater



> On Mar 16, 2017, at 10:23 PM, Pigatt, Yvonne <ypigatt at ccbcmd.edu <mailto:ypigatt at ccbcmd.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Don for your quick response.  We will be polishing up our code this weekend and this information will be very useful.
>  
> Do you have a video that can show us how to restart a procedure in a game.  If a user clicks on a wrong answer, how can we start the procedure again.  I guess we can use recursion?  We are using Alice 3.x.
>  
> Thank you,
> 
> Vicky
> Yvonne Pigatt, Assistant Professor
> Computer Science/Information Technology
> The Community College of Baltimore County
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> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:13 AM
> To: Alice Teachers
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3.x
> 
> Yvonne,
> It would be very difficult to export / import methods that belong to the Scene class into other projects.
> 
> However, if the methods belong to an object (such as the ClownFish) or the Fish class, then that class can be exported and imported into other projects… See the following video demonstrations:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXhZZMZawis&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXhZZMZawis&feature=youtu.be> - a summary video
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNqDdHmvho&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNqDdHmvho&feature=youtu.be> - focus on export
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XprEvcqjgY&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XprEvcqjgY&feature=youtu.be> - focus on import
> 
> If you build the mouse-click listener with if statements than different events can be triggered, depending on what is clicked on…
> 
> See the following video:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzgnRiHTXo&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzgnRiHTXo&feature=youtu.be>
> 
> (Keypress events start at the 6:50 mark, but it may be useful to view the entire video).
> 
> If you have not covered the if statement in your course, another way to do this would be to 
> add the mouse-click event 
> click on the details button, and select Set of Visuals 
> from SetOfVisuals, click on Custom Array… 
> In the Custom Array Dialog box, add the object or objects that you want to respond to that particular mouse event.
> 
> See this video demo:
> 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332970/mouseEventDemo.mp4 <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332970/mouseEventDemo.mp4> 
> 
> Please let us know if you have any other 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 <mailto:dslater at cmu.edu>
> 
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> 
>> On Mar 16, 2017, at 12:37 AM, Pigatt, Yvonne <ypigatt at ccbcmd.edu <mailto:ypigatt at ccbcmd.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I am working on a middle school project and have run into some problems.
>>  
>> Can Alice 3.x procedures be imported into other Alice 3.x projects?
>>  
>> I am trying to combine code from four different students into one project.  Can there be multiple mouse click event listeners that initiate different events?
>>   
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Vicky
>> Yvonne Pigatt, Assistant Professor
>> Computer Science/Information Technology
>> The Community College of Baltimore County
>> 443-840-2835|443-840-5035 fax |ypigatt at ccbcmd.edu <mailto:ypigatt at ccbcmd.edu>
>> CCBC. The incredible value of education.
>> The only way to do great work is to love what you do..Steve Jobs
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