From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Apr 1 18:14:36 2019 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:14:36 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Alice Team Newsletter Message-ID: Dear All, I wanted to share a couple Alice Team updates: 1. Our summer workshop has finally been posted for July 15-19th . We have been guaranteed our space so can finally officially announce it but our registration page is not quite up and running yet. Feel free to reach out to us to reserve a spot or ask any questions: http://www.alice.org/resources/workshops/introduction-to-alice-3-workshop/ Also please share any workshops or summer camps you know of with us so we can post them on our site. 2. We have released some new draft lessons: An Alice game design lesson with a first example game w/ more to come: http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/design-process-games/ A good accompaniment to this lesson in partnership with the conditional and events lessons is using variables: http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/using-variables/ 3. We have posted a first set of biped animation how tos that could be helpful for people trying to go deeper into joint animation: A biped joint overview with joint by joint run down (view the quick reference for all of the information): http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/manipulating-biped-joints/ A biped walk cycle how to including example files (highly commented but be aware they are out there): http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/biped-walk-cycle/ 4. For those in the Western PA region we have opened the submission portal for the regional challenge: https://www.judgify.me/alicechallenge-2019 As always we thank you for your support of the The Alice Project and welcome any and all feedback and requests. Sincerely, Eric From jsementa at rhnet.org Tue Apr 2 15:22:38 2019 From: jsementa at rhnet.org (Joseph Sementa) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 15:22:38 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 100, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is there a plan for another workshop for teachers who have been using Alice but are looking to take it to the next level? Regards, Joe S. On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:02 PM wrote: > Send alice-teachers mailing list submissions to > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > alice-teachers-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > alice-teachers-owner at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of alice-teachers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Alice Team Newsletter (Eric Brown) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:14:36 -0700 > From: Eric Brown > To: Alice Teachers > Subject: alice-teacher Alice Team Newsletter > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Dear All, > > I wanted to share a couple Alice Team updates: > > 1. Our summer workshop has finally been posted for July 15-19th . We > have been guaranteed our space so can finally officially announce it but > our registration page is not quite up and running yet. Feel free to reach > out to us to reserve a spot or ask any questions: > > http://www.alice.org/resources/workshops/introduction-to-alice-3-workshop/ > > Also please share any workshops or summer camps you know of with us so we > can post them on our site. > > 2. We have released some new draft lessons: > > An Alice game design lesson with a first example game w/ more to come: > http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/design-process-games/ > > A good accompaniment to this lesson in partnership with the conditional > and events lessons is using variables: > http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/using-variables/ > > 3. We have posted a first set of biped animation how tos that could be > helpful for people trying to go deeper into joint animation: > > A biped joint overview with joint by joint run down (view the quick > reference for all of the information): > http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/manipulating-biped-joints/ > > A biped walk cycle how to including example files (highly commented but be > aware they are out there): > http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/biped-walk-cycle/ > > 4. For those in the Western PA region we have opened the submission > portal for the regional challenge: > https://www.judgify.me/alicechallenge-2019 > > As always we thank you for your support of the The Alice Project and > welcome any and all feedback and requests. > > Sincerely, > > Eric > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings, switch to digest, or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > ------------------------------ > > End of alice-teachers Digest, Vol 100, Issue 1 > ********************************************** > -- *Joe Sementa* Technology Teacher Girls' Modified A Soccer Coach Rush Henrietta Sperry High School https://www.rhnet.org/domain/2135 A great teacher is often like a candle ? it consumes itself to light the way for others. -Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From don at alice.org Thu Apr 4 08:31:49 2019 From: don at alice.org (Donald Slater) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 08:31:49 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 100, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Joseph, The short answer to your question is that there is not yet a plan for a ?next-level? Alice workshop. But we are aware of the need and the interest in such an event, and we are having conversations and exploring ideas on how to make something happen. In the meantime, it would be helpful if you and anyone else who is interested might share with us topics / ideas that they would like to see covered. Thank you for your interest in and support of Alice. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Apr 2, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Joseph Sementa > wrote: > > Is there a plan for another workshop for teachers who have been using Alice but are looking to take it to the next level? > Regards, > Joe S. > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:02 PM > wrote: > Send alice-teachers mailing list submissions to > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > alice-teachers-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > alice-teachers-owner at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of alice-teachers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Alice Team Newsletter (Eric Brown) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:14:36 -0700 > From: Eric Brown > > To: Alice Teachers > > Subject: alice-teacher Alice Team Newsletter > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Dear All, > > I wanted to share a couple Alice Team updates: > > 1. Our summer workshop has finally been posted for July 15-19th . We have been guaranteed our space so can finally officially announce it but our registration page is not quite up and running yet. Feel free to reach out to us to reserve a spot or ask any questions: > > http://www.alice.org/resources/workshops/introduction-to-alice-3-workshop/ > > Also please share any workshops or summer camps you know of with us so we can post them on our site. > > 2. We have released some new draft lessons: > > An Alice game design lesson with a first example game w/ more to come: http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/design-process-games/ > > A good accompaniment to this lesson in partnership with the conditional and events lessons is using variables: http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/using-variables/ > > 3. We have posted a first set of biped animation how tos that could be helpful for people trying to go deeper into joint animation: > > A biped joint overview with joint by joint run down (view the quick reference for all of the information): http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/manipulating-biped-joints/ > > A biped walk cycle how to including example files (highly commented but be aware they are out there): http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/biped-walk-cycle/ > > 4. For those in the Western PA region we have opened the submission portal for the regional challenge: https://www.judgify.me/alicechallenge-2019 > > As always we thank you for your support of the The Alice Project and welcome any and all feedback and requests. > > Sincerely, > > Eric > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings, switch to digest, or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > ------------------------------ > > End of alice-teachers Digest, Vol 100, Issue 1 > ********************************************** > > > -- > Joe Sementa > Technology Teacher > Girls' Modified A Soccer Coach > Rush Henrietta Sperry High School > https://www.rhnet.org/domain/2135 > > A great teacher is often like a candle ? it consumes itself to light the way for others. > -Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Apr 10 14:41:58 2019 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:41:58 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.5 Released Message-ID: <7D19AA99-9062-48B5-A4A0-3A7E4C1D8A0B@andrew.cmu.edu> Dear All, I just wanted to send a note to let everyone know that a new version of Alice 3 has been released (3.5). It includes some performance improvements as well as feature updates and bug fixes. We have not officially rolled the import model feature into our core release so please continue to use the beta version and report any finding to us. Worlds built in that build should open in the main release at this time. We will update that version with all of these improvements as well: Feature Improvements: ? One Shot list in scene editor now includes all possible procedures ? sModel type now supports say and think (shapes can now talk!) ? The compare list was extended to include color and paint ? The Default number list now includes 0 (seems simple but something I have been wanting for a while) ? Added set and get indexed value into procedure and function list for all array properties ? Improved bounding box for camera to enable for collision and proximity events ? Improved ability to open an Alice world from save file Bug Fixes: ? Fixed a striation of textures when objects are in close proximity ? Key Events were blocking when multiple listeners used same inputs this has been resolved to insure all key events are processed ? Fixed an issue that was causing functions with nested conditionals to return a false ?missing return value? that was requiring unnecessary code to resolve. ? Fixed an issue that was causing odd behavior when scaling and resizing box objects ? Vehicle not reporting as error when correctly implemented ? Marker buttons are now updating correctly when making a selection change ? Fixed issue with square dune resource breaking worlds Performance Improvements: ? Improved code execution to continue running in more cases ? Cleaned up several recoverable errors that resulted in angry queen and other performance issues NetBeans Bug Fixes ? Fixed bugs on NetBeans project import and code generation. ? Fixed NetBeans bugs for incorrect order of operations and processing parentheses that affected conditionals and math As always please continue to send us your bug fix and feature requests. We continue to work on them to improve your experience. Sincerely, Eric From espruill at rmsel.org Tue Apr 16 13:56:43 2019 From: espruill at rmsel.org (Elizabeth Spruill) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:56:43 -0600 Subject: alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open Message-ID: I have a couple students who have projects that they've been working on. Now every time they open their projects, the projects crash. In one case, the student gets a bug report. The other case, Alice simply closes as soon as she tries to do anything. Is there a way to use the .bak files to open the projects? Can we recover the work they've done so they can move on? Thanks. Elizabeth Spruill -- Elizabeth Spruill Media Technology Librarian RMSEL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From don at alice.org Tue Apr 16 15:49:45 2019 From: don at alice.org (Don Slater) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:49:45 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <29E2192C-9B1D-4E68-953E-EC6163D27812@alice.org> Elizabeth, I am sorry.. it is hard to know what is going on without being present or to see the projects. I would recommend that as soon as your students start a project, before doing anything else, they save their project. This starts the automatic backup process in Alice 3 (saving a copy every 10 minutes or so) so that even if the project crashes, there will be backup versions that the students will be able to open and use, with a minimum of loss. You will will find these backups in a .bak directory in the same location as where the project is being saved. The files are named .a3p with the time stamp format being . The auto files are automatic backup, and the save files are backups created every time the project is saved. These are Alice .a3p files and can be opened and run within Alice. If you can think of any other details that might be helpful (similar elements, props, characters, etc) please send them along. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Apr 16, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Elizabeth Spruill wrote: > > I have a couple students who have projects that they've been working on. Now every time they open their projects, the projects crash. In one case, the student gets a bug report. The other case, Alice simply closes as soon as she tries to do anything. Is there a way to use the .bak files to open the projects? Can we recover the work they've done so they can move on? > Thanks. > Elizabeth Spruill > > -- > Elizabeth Spruill > Media Technology Librarian > RMSEL > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Apr 16 15:50:30 2019 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:50:30 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Elizabeth, Inside the .bak folder should be several save files. They are in the format of: autosave(yearDay_time) - that should have been captured approximately ever 5 minutes while the project was open for the last 30ish minutes we delete the oldest after 5. save(yearDay_time) - there should be a copy of each of the last intentional saves up to five. You can check those to see if you can find a version that work. I am also not sure what version of Alice you are using but we have improved some things that may allow the world to open successfully in our newer versions (better error recovery). So you could download a newer version (we just published a new version) and try opening it in that. This depends on if they did something that we are better at dealing with now and not something beyond our abilities. I hope you are able to get the students back up and running with one of these methods. Sincerely, Eric > On Apr 16, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Elizabeth Spruill wrote: > > I have a couple students who have projects that they've been working on. Now every time they open their projects, the projects crash. In one case, the student gets a bug report. The other case, Alice simply closes as soon as she tries to do anything. Is there a way to use the .bak files to open the projects? Can we recover the work they've done so they can move on? > Thanks. > Elizabeth Spruill > > -- > Elizabeth Spruill > Media Technology Librarian > RMSEL > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Apr 16 15:54:40 2019 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:54:40 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open In-Reply-To: <29E2192C-9B1D-4E68-953E-EC6163D27812@alice.org> References: <29E2192C-9B1D-4E68-953E-EC6163D27812@alice.org> Message-ID: <55E8E157-B415-4118-8BCD-3EBC7B2805DE@andrew.cmu.edu> Elizabeth, Depending on what version of Alice you are using our newer/newest versions have also made improvements on some error recovery that may be helpful. You could try downloading our newest version of Alice and attempt to open them. It may not have fixed what is causing the error but it may be worth trying. Sincerely, Eric > On Apr 16, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Don Slater wrote: > > Elizabeth, > I am sorry.. it is hard to know what is going on without being present or to see the projects. > > I would recommend that as soon as your students start a project, before doing anything else, they save their project. This starts the automatic backup process in Alice 3 (saving a copy every 10 minutes or so) so that even if the project crashes, there will be backup versions that the students will be able to open and use, with a minimum of loss. > > You will will find these backups in a .bak directory in the same location as where the project is being saved. The files are named .a3p with the time stamp format being . The auto files are automatic backup, and the save files are backups created every time the project is saved. > > These are Alice .a3p files and can be opened and run within Alice. > > If you can think of any other details that might be helpful (similar elements, props, characters, etc) please send them along. > > All the best, > Don Slater > > Alice Project > >> On Apr 16, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Elizabeth Spruill wrote: >> >> I have a couple students who have projects that they've been working on. Now every time they open their projects, the projects crash. In one case, the student gets a bug report. The other case, Alice simply closes as soon as she tries to do anything. Is there a way to use the .bak files to open the projects? Can we recover the work they've done so they can move on? >> Thanks. >> Elizabeth Spruill >> >> -- >> Elizabeth Spruill >> Media Technology Librarian >> RMSEL >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers From marussig at siol.net Wed Apr 17 03:35:43 2019 From: marussig at siol.net (Matjaz Marussig) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:35:43 +0200 Subject: alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Elizabeth, I recommend you to teach them about the "system of saving". I'm teaching them how often and when to save. This is very important in case they work on upgrade of the program. It's also important they understand when or at which phase they need to understand it is upgrade. If they write huge of new details, new methods, new functionalities, new properties, new objects etc. then they should consider a program as an upgrade and save it as a new version f.e. V1.0, V1.1, V2.0 etc. Believe me, they will need to understand this proces as a part of their later professional coding. Matjaz Matjaz Marussig ME ISV Oracle Silver Partner Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig Medium: https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig email: marussig at siol.net Private email: matjaz.marussig at gmail.com Skypename: matjazmarussig Phone: 0038641508427 On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 21:39, Elizabeth Spruill wrote: > I have a couple students who have projects that they've been working on. > Now every time they open their projects, the projects crash. In one case, > the student gets a bug report. The other case, Alice simply closes as soon > as she tries to do anything. Is there a way to use the .bak files to open > the projects? 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