<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Elaine,<div class="">Our text will not be ready for this fall, unfortunately…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you go to the Alice Level 3 Instructional Materials Home page </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.alice.org/3.1/index.html" class="">http://www.alice.org/3.1/index.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and select the Course Materials menu -> Collin College / CCAC menu item, you will find a reference to a textbook </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><strong style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;" class=""><em class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Learning Java Through Alice</em><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Authors: Tebring Daly and Eileen Wrigley <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ISBN-13: 978-1491073933</strong></div><div class=""><strong style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;" class=""><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.alice.org/3.1/index.html" class="">http://www.alice.org/3.1/index.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> that was developed as part of an NSF grant in which we were partners.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Joel Adams, who did a semester sabbatical with the Alice team has two textbooks that use Alice 3:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Action-Computing-Through-Animation/dp/1133589227/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433418288&sr=1-1&keywords=Joel+Adams+Alice" class="">Alice 3 in Action: Computing Through Animation</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alice-3-Action-Java-TM/dp/1133589189/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433418288&sr=1-2&keywords=Joel+Adams+Alice" class="">Alice 3 in Action with Java(TM)</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tony Gaddis also has a texts that uses Alice 3. Tony has attended our workshops.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Alice-Tony-Gaddis/dp/0133129748/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433418378&sr=1-1&keywords=Tony+Gaddis+Alice" class="">Starting Out with Alice (3rd Edition)</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me know if you have any other questions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 3, 2015, at 1:10 PM, Elaine Demeter <<a href="mailto:demetere@fatherryan.org" class="">demetere@fatherryan.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Do you an approximate release date for this Alice 3 textbook that you mention? I am looking for a book for the fall semester.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Elaine Demeter<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Father Ryan High School<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a name="_MailEndCompose" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></a></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don Slater [<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:52 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alice Teachers<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: alice-teacher New version of Alice Level 2 (2.4.3)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Carolyn,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">We have a set of video tutorials / demonstrations for Alice 3 currently available on our web site<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.alice.org/3.1/materials_videos.php" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.alice.org/3.1/materials_videos.php</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">although these may not be exactly what you are looking for. This is not a complete set by any stretch, and we are still developing and refining these, as well as finishing the textbook, which will have textbook specific videos as well.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I look forward to any suggestions you might have.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">All the best,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Don Slater<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Jun 2, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Carolyn Thomas <<a href="mailto:c.r.thomas@k12.wv.us" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">c.r.thomas@k12.wv.us</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Don - any plans for an online tutorial for the new version?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Carolyn Thomas, NBCT<br class="">7th/8th Grade Science Teacher<br class="">Wildwood Middle School<br class="">1209 Shenandoah Junction Road<br class="">Shenandoah Junction, WV 25442<br class="">304-728-1988<br class="">Classroom Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://boe.jeff.k12.wv.us/thomas" id="LPNoLP" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">http://boe.jeff.k12.wv.us/thomas</span></a></span></i><i class=""></i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><hr size="3" width="864" align="center" style="width: 518.15pt;" class=""></span></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+c.r.thomas=k12.wv.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">alice-teachers-bounces+c.r.thomas=k12.wv.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+c.r.thomas=k12.wv.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">alice-teachers-bounces+c.r.thomas=k12.wv.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> on behalf of Don Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Tuesday, June 2, 2015 11:52 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Alice Teachers<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>alice-teacher New version of Alice Level 2 (2.4.3)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The latest version Alice Level 2, version 2.4.3, has been released and is now available at<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/download_alice2.4" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/download_alice2.4</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This is the intended release for the Fall, 2015 semester.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This release includes bug fixes, better support for Linux environments and the use of Unicode characters in Alice projects, and new models. Please see the release notes for this release at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/58024878/Alice%202%20Release%20Notes" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/58024878/Alice%202%20Release%20Notes</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">All the best,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Don Slater<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Alice Team<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Carnegie Mellon University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">5000 Forbes Avenue<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15213<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:don@alice.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">don@alice.org</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br class="">--- Henry David Thoreau<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. 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