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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">Alice is based on Java. Perhaps you can assign them an actual java program that uses methods and let them see the similarities between alice and the Java language.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">Mike</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">On May 15, 2014 8:33 AM, "Emily Higgins" <</font><a href="mailto:erphiggins@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;"><u>erphiggins@gmail.com</u></font></a><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">> wrote:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">Dear All -</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;"> I have taught Alice in my programming class for the past three years. I need to add more to the course - I have become more efficient in my teaching. Does anyone have particular recommendations of what languages or projects I could add for the portion of the year after I've used Alice? I would like it to be something different from Alice.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">Thank you all -</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times-Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times-Roman;font-size:16pt;color:#000000;">Emily Higgins</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">Greenfoot or BlueJ might be good additions for the Java. I found that Alice alone was not getting the concepts across to the students. I'm using Alice 3 with Greenfoot and BlueJ next year with my 2nd level Game Simulation Design students.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">This year I used Alice 2.4 and Codecademy for the 9th graders. Codecademy is Javascript, but the concept of loops, and if statements are what I was trying to get them to understand. Best of all, these resources are free.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">thanks,</font></div>
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