alice-teacher Learning to Program with Alice, Third Edition

Don Slater dslater at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Apr 1 07:56:30 EDT 2011


"Learning to Program with Alice", Third Edition, by Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, and Randy Pausch, has been released by Pearson / Prentice Hall and is the edition that will be available for next fall. (ISBN-13: 978-0-13-212247-4) 

Steve Cooper has just completed updating the Instructor Materials at http://www.aliceprogramming.net to reflect the changes in this latest edition.

The changes in this edition:
	1) Corrects errata from the second edition
	2) Replaces the burning building example in Chapter 5 with a lighting effects example
	3) Replaces the fly-collision example in Chapter 6 with a guessing-game example.
	4) Adds new exercises and projects in Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10, particularly with more games
	5) Adds new Tips & Techniques on using groups in an object tree (Chapter 9)
	6) Updates Alice 2.2 with example worlds on DVD. Prevents name collisions of objects in a group.
	7) Provides updates to Appendix B regarding exporting files and videos.
	8) Adds section 11.2, introducing Alice 3 Beta

Don Slater



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