Quote:
Originally Posted by HAL-1701
Can Alice be used to make display interfaces for data files or live data from the web ... ... I hope Alice is not hampered in this department!-- Ian / HAL-1701
|
The only type of data Alice 2.0 can access from the web is a text file, and that requires using the Jython scripting capability which is not fully implemented. (See
http://www.westga.edu/~drocco/alice/scripting.html and/or do a forum search for more details.)
Personally, I would not say Alice is "hampered" by this lack (though a bit more scripting capability would be nice
). Getting into sockets, pipes, etc. would really detract from it's basic mission as a beginning teaching tool for OOP.