alice-teacher Alice 3.x

Fri Mar 17 14:17:54 EDT 2017

Thanks Don!

I think I can use this code to control the game.  I was not able to find anything like this by browsing YouTube videos.

Can you recommend a textbook for Alice 3.x?  Looks like I will be teaching middle school students again next year. I currently teach 2.4 on the Community College level.

My goal is to teach K-12 teachers how to use Alice in the classroom.  Working with these middle school students is a great way to learn about the needs of k-12 teachers.  I tried to get into the Duke training in North Carolina last year, but was placed on the waiting list.

By the way, I do read every thread that is included in the educator's list.  Thanks Don for moderating this list, it is very useful.  I don't know what we would do without it or you!!!!!

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
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From: alice-teachers [alice-teachers-bounces+ypigatt=ccbcmd.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] on behalf of Donald Slater [djslater107 at mac.com]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 1:08 PM
To: Alice Teachers
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3.x

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

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
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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From: alice-teachers [alice-teachers-bounces+ypigatt=ccbcmd.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+ypigatt=ccbcmd.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>] on behalf of Donald Slater [djslater107 at mac.com<mailto:djslater107 at mac.com>]
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 - a summary video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNqDdHmvho&feature=youtu.be - focus on export
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

(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

  1.  add the mouse-click event
  2.  click on the details button, and select Set of Visuals
  3.  from SetOfVisuals, click on Custom Array…
  4.  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

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.
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