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amyjko / Gidget

Computing education through playful debugging
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animate NAME changes #44

Open amyjko opened 13 years ago

amyjko commented 13 years ago

Currently, the name is just modified with no fanfare. Should it be more apparent that it changed?

mjslee commented 13 years ago

This would be a useful feature to really highlight the name change since it can be subtle.

Currently, I have no levels using the "name" command because it opens up the potential for learners to cheat. That is, they might change the name of an easily accessible thing to the name of a difficult-to-reach goal thing.

Perhaps one way around this problem is to have a device that can rename things? That is, so that the naming can be better controlled by level design and only available when the naming thing is present. However, the rationale for the existence of such a device to do this kind of task is lacking.

amyjko commented 13 years ago

If we don't have any levels that use name, this is probably low priority. Do we have any levels where things other than Gidget name things? That was the scenario I was thinking of: where a name suddenly changes, with little highlighting to show emphasize it.