alice-teacher Texts and assists for April Bradley
April Bradley
abradley at carolina.rr.com
Mon Jan 24 17:50:23 EST 2011
Thank you!
From: alice-teachers-bounces+abradley=carolina.rr.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+abradley=carolina.rr.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Marilynn Huret
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 7:27 PM
To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: alice-teacher Texts and assists for April Bradley
There are 3 things you may want to look at depending on the age and abilities of your sons.
There are 2 texts, the one by Wanda Dann etal; and the one by Tony Gaddis. Each comes with a set of tutorials. The third is a series of lesons and tutorials prepared by students under the direction of Susan Rodger at Duke. These are easy to follow examples to complete a project.
The examples in the first book and the excercises at the end of each chapter build on the work covered. In the Gaddis book, a "story line" is provided as part of each chapter's exercise section, and it is up to the programmer to create the scenario.
Since you are doing all the schooling, you may want to weave some of their language material into creating some of the projects
m huret
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>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:59:52 1000
>From: Eric Skogen
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>I know it's not what you were looking for, but one resource I wish I had access to when I was homeschooled is http://dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm (Sorry if you're on this list and I just stole your thunder). I wouldn't want it to replace a text (personally, I like Learning to Program with Java, though I seem to be a minority) , but it is an incredible supplement.
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>Good luck!
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>From: alice-teachers-bounces eskogen=hbcguam.net at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces eskogen=hbcguam.net at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of April Bradley
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>* 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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>Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:52:56 -0600
>From: Dean Arteaga
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>Alice is a great programming environment.
>Depending on the age of your children, you may also want to look at
>MIT's free programming intro software environment called: Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu
> is the URL).
>My daughter, now eight, has used it almost daily for the last three
>years (yes, at 5 she started) and it is robust enough for her to learn
>more. Like any language, human or programming, it is good to learn
>more than one.
>She and my son are home-schooled. Me, I am a high school computer
>science/ technology teacher and ex-IT Exec.
>Alice is great. Scratch is really cool as well.
>Hope this helps.
>
>On Jan 20, 2011, at 3:09 PM, April Bradley wrote:
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>> ? 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.
>>
>> I appreciate your time.
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>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:52:38 -0500
>From: "April Bradley"
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>Thank you for the link! I appreciate it!
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>From: alice-teachers-bounces abradley=carolina.rr.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
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>Subject: Re: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>I know it's not what you were looking for, but one resource I wish I had
>access to when I was homeschooled is http://dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
>(Sorry if you're on this list and I just stole your thunder). I wouldn't
>want it to replace a text (personally, I like Learning to Program with Java,
>though I seem to be a minority) , but it is an incredible supplement.
>
>Good luck!
>
>From: alice-teachers-bounces eskogen=hbcguam.net at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>[mailto:alice-teachers-bounces eskogen=hbcguam.net at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On
>Behalf Of April Bradley
>Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 7:10 AM
>To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>Subject: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>. 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.
>I appreciate your time.
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>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:53:32 -0500
>From: "April Bradley"
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>I've seen info on Scratch as well. I appreciate the info. I'll take a look
>at it!
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>From: alice-teachers-bounces abradley=carolina.rr.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>[mailto:alice-teachers-bounces abradley=carolina.rr.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
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>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:53 PM
>To: Alice educators
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
>
>Alice is a great programming environment.
>Depending on the age of your children, you may also want to look at MIT's
>free programming intro software environment called: Scratch
>(http://scratch.mit.edu is the URL).
>My daughter, now eight, has used it almost daily for the last three years
>(yes, at 5 she started) and it is robust enough for her to learn more. Like
>any language, human or programming, it is good to learn more than one.
>She and my son are home-schooled. Me, I am a high school computer science/
>technology teacher and ex-IT Exec.
>Alice is great. Scratch is really cool as well.
>Hope this helps.
>
>On Jan 20, 2011, at 3:09 PM, April Bradley 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.
>I appreciate your time.
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>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:26:24 -0800
>From: "Susana (Suki) Wessling"
>Subject: alice-teacher High School / Middle School Texts for Alice
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>Hi April,
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>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.
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>Suki
>Susana (Suki) Wessling
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>Suki's Parenting and Education Facebook Page
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>On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:00 AM, alice-teachers-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
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>> 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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