<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much!<div>Tamara Mazza</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Don Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Contact Dr Steve Cooper at <a href="mailto:coopers@cs.stanford.edu" target="_blank">coopers@cs.stanford.edu</a>, who will be able to provide login / password information for <a href="http://www.aliceprogramming.net" target="_blank">http://www.aliceprogramming.net</a>. This site contains a number of instructional materials including syllabi, sample exams and test banks, projects, exercises and their solutions.<div><br></div><div>It is password protected to try reduce access to the solutions to students. Dr Cooper will ask that you verify that are a teacher by providing a school email address or a link to a school website with your information.</div><div><br></div><div>We would be very interested to hear more about your comment that Alice 3.0 confuses students when preparing students for the AP Computer Science exam. I am guessing that you are not preparing Middle School students for the AP Exam.</div><div><br></div><div>At this time, Alice Level 2 may be a better choice for Middle School students as it is designed to introduce programming fundamentals to students and does not specifically refer to any professional development language, such as Java. Their is also a larger set of instructional materials available for Alice 2, although Alice 3 is catching up.</div><div><br></div><div>Alice 3 is designed to introduce fundamental programming concepts to students, in courses in which students will be starting to learn the Java programming language. Because of the number of topics covered in the APCS Exam, I can understand that to start with Alice and cover the entire AP curriculum in one year may be a bit much.</div><div><br></div><div>But we would love to hear of other’s experience with Alice 3 as they prepare students for the AP.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div><span class=""><div>
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<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 27, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Tamara Mazza <<a href="mailto:tamara.mazza@ahschool.com" target="_blank">tamara.mazza@ahschool.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">I am being told that I should only teach Alice 2.0 to Middle School students. The reason is that 3.0 confuses them when preparing them for the AP Computer Science test. If this is the case does anyone have some lesson plans for Alice 2.0. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Don Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">It has been mentioned by several that the link to the archives for the Alice Educator’s Mailing List was broke. In checking with Computing Services here at Carnegie Mellon, they reported that “... a typo was introduced into our web server configuration. This has been fixed and the alice-teacher archives are available again.”<div><br></div><div><div>Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and please let us know if you have any other problems.</div></div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><br><div>
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