alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice

[Susana (Suki) Wessling]

Hi April,

I am also teaching homeschooled kids, though most are younger than middle school. The most valuable tools I've found are actually the tutorials that other teachers have put together:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/tutorials.php
http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm

Probably best not to buy a book till they're updated with Alice 3. With my kids, the best approach seemed to be having them do the tutorials that come with Alice, then spend some time just doing fun stuff and discovering the tools. Then they could see what they didn't know and be more motivated to do tutorials to learn new skills.

Suki
Susana (Suki) Wessling
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On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:00 AM, alice-teachers-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

>  I am a homeschooling parent.  My two boys are both interested in
> programming and have completed other programming texts.  A friend of mine
> told me about Alice - I'm excited, based on my viewing of the site, about
> the learning opportunity for my boys and for the homeschool community.
> .         I see that a text is recommended and has teaching syllabi.  Are
> there texts aimed at middle school and high school aged children?  If so,
> which ones would you recommend?  I'm interested in a textbook type format
> that could be incorporated into our home curriculum or taught at the local
> homeschool co-ops.

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