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Alice vs Scratch

by Don | posted in Features, History | tagged as , , ,

On the ap-computerscience listserv, there has recently been a discussion thread discussing the relative merits of Alice and Scratch

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submitting bug reports from a java app

by dennis | posted in Features | tagged as

Since Java 1.5, you can set the default uncaught exception handler:

Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler( new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
public void uncaughtException( Thread thread, Throwable throwable ) {
// fill in code here
}
} );

When combined with the JavaMail API, Alice-3 can now submit bug reports on uncaught exceptions and attach things like the stack trace, the system properties, the user’s project, the [...]

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