Last year I taught Alice to a group of homeschooled students and was very pleased with it (I'm was a programmer - both mainframe and PC in my pre-homeschooling life). I used version 2.0 for that class because one of the students had a Linux laptop.
I will be teaching Alice at a summer school course soon and am trying to decide what version to use. In this class, we are in a computer lab so everyone will have Windows computers. I'm trying to decide if I should use version 2.2 since it's much newer than 2.0. I'm concerned because I've seen posts in this community about performance issues with 2.2 (due to memory leaks) and I'm not sure if that has been fixed.
Also, I'm not clear, is 2.2 still considered a beta version?
I'll likely have more questions now that I finally registered for this forum. I've been using it as a guest for awhile and really appreciate all the knowledge shared by so many experts on this forum. I've also found the teacher resources available via
www.aliceprogramming.net and the Prentice-Hall site helpful (I was able to get teacher access by vouching that I'm a teacher).