alice-teacher Text version of Alice Objects

[Don Slater]

Alice 3 in Beta form is now available for you to download and try out. 

	http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=alice3/download

This allows you to create Alice worlds, as before.

There is also a NetBeans plugin available at the download site that allows you to import and existing Alice 3 Beta scene into NetBeans, so that you may now work with your Alice project and models in Java. We only have the plugin available for NetBeans at this time. The advantage is that it facilitates the proper initialization of classpaths so that your projects will be able to access the appropriate Alice libraries.

Eventually there will be other plugins for other IDE's, but we are only in NetBeans for the time being.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Donald Slater
Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Office phone: (412) 268-4370

The true object of all human life is play.
--- G. K. Chesterton



On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Francis, Howard wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am looking for a Java implementation of Alice Objects in text form. Now, before you think I'm crazy, let me explain. 
> 
> Alice has proven to be to be a great teaching tool, but I, like many others, have found it difficult to guide students through the transition from Alice to Java. There aren't many resources - I'm aware of just two books (Adams' "Alice in Action with Java", and Lewis/DePasquale's "Programming with Alice & Java") - and neither seemed to work for my students.
> 
> However, one of my best lab meetings ever in that class was after working an example from Chapter 4 of Adams' book, I redid it in Java, with my students following along. We put the code side by side to show the similarities and different. This simple text example (output shown below) I think really reinforced how Alice and Java are related.
> 
> I plan on doing activities all through my course the next time I teach it, so having a library of Alice classes implemented with bland text in Java would provide an intermediate step between a traditional Alice program and a traditional Java one. 
> 
> I plan on writing such an implementation over winter break, but if someone perhaps has already done that, then that could save me a lot of time.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Howard
> 
> 
> Mr. Howard V Francis
> Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Pikeville College
> Pikeville, KY 41501
> 
> OUTPUT OF SIMPLE PROGRAM BELOW ---- (I can provide source files if anyone wants them)
> 
> Hello!
> 
> 
> Can you understand me?
>     *** nods YES ***
> Can you speak?
>     *** shakes NO ***
> Can you only answer yes or no questions?
>     *** nods YES ***
> Are you a tame dragon?
>     *** shakes NO ***
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