Brand New . . . Can't seem to position cones correctly.

[Ryan Peterson]

I have set a goal to introduce Glowscript into my physics classroom this year.  I have toyed with it precious little.  Unfortunately, that leaves me here roughly 12 hours ahead of my students trying frantically to get some basics under control.  I am trying to position two cones right next to each other in this program.

http://www.glowscript.org/#/user/rpeterson/folder/Public/program/MrP

No matter what I do, I can't seem to get one or the other to change position.  They are stuck on top of one another despite having a different position for their base.  Help?

I was experiencing this problem in a previous program that I was trying to write and decided to try to start a fresh bit of code with only two cones to minimize distractions and I can't get it to work here either.  I must have some fundamental misunderstanding of the pos attribute.  The documentation says that it is the location of the center of the circular base.  I must be missing something.

[Craig Wiegert]

Hi Ryan,

It looks like the problem is that you're using "position" instead of
just "pos" for the position attribute.

Incorrect attributes are not uncommon mistakes for students, too, so
this is a good error for you to make! If I've been away from
Glowscript/VPython for any length of time, I usually have to remind
myself of the correct attributes using the help pages.

Cheers,

- Craig

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