alice-teacher How to collapse do-together/do-in-order in Alice 3

[Donald Slater]

Carlos,
The capability to collapse control structures is not currently in Alice 3, although it is certainly a feature worth considering.

I try to encourage my students to think about their design, and create procedures for the major components of their program (For younger students, If they write their procedures for the Scene class, it is generally not necessary to introduce parameters until later.)

One way to help them think of their design is to have the students create storyboards of their project, and each panel of the storyboard becomes one procedure. This has the effect of collapsing the code, making it easier to manage and understand.

I am looking forward to seeing other suggestions.

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project


> On Mar 28, 2018, at 7:46 AM, Carlos Bovell <cbovell at nburlington.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a way to collapse some of the control structures in the Alice 3 code. I'm having our students migrate from Alice 2 to Alice 3 for the last quarter and the students are complaining that it's hard to follow their code because they can't collapse the do-togethers and do-in-order structures as they grew accustomed to doing in Alice 2. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for taking my email.
> 
> Best,
> Carlos
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