If your Alice program doesn't work, you can login to a virtual machine and run Alice in the cloud!
To do so login to a Virtual machine here at OIT here.
Look for the container called Alice. It was near the bottom of the list of containers for me.
We will use a specific version of Alice 3 (the most recent version, NOT the Beta version, NOT the netbeans version). Download Alice 3 from here and run the installer. Note where the folder "My Projects" is put on your computer as that is where you will store the Alice projects you build.
YOU DO NOT NEED THE NETBEANS VERSION OR PLUGIN!!! We will not do anything with Netbeans. YOU DO NOT NEED THE BETA VERSION.
You may or may not need to install Java to run Alice.
These vides are from a Duke Coursera course with the Duke Professors: Rodger, Astrachan, Hilton and Duvall. They use a different tool for creating webpages, codepen. We will not create web pages in this class, but in case you are interested.
These vides are from a Duke Coursera course with the Duke Professors: Rodger, Astrachan, Hilton and Duvall. They use a different tool for creating webpages, codepen. We will use Thimble in this class to create webpages.
There seems to be a "Take Picture" button when you play Alice worlds, but it's grayed-out on my Mac version of Alice and you can't click it... Hmmm. Perhaps this is a bug or incomplete feature on the Mac version.
You can take snapshots of a portion of your screen by pressing Shift-Apple-4. After you do this, your mouse cursor will change into a cross-shaped targeting reticle thing. Click and drag to select a portion of the screen. You'll hear a clicking noise like a camera. A file will be created called "Picture 1.png" on your desktop -- this is a picture of the area you selected (the ".png" extension at the end might be invisible by default, but it is there). You can use this feature to take pictures of your Alice worlds even though that pesky "Take Picture" button is grayed out.
When you take a picture, it may create it as a .pdf file. If you preview it, then you can export it to a .jpg (convert it to another form).
Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost
effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are
harmless. They're
never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much
cheaper
to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and
complain
about.
- Bruce Schneier