alice-teacher Can Alice be used to Create Mobile Applicatio​ns?

[Gray, Jeff]

I am teaching about 20 high school students this week using the App Inventor in Android (both in the block code visual language and in Java).

To do this in Alice would seem to require adaptations that supported a new code generator. I am not sure that would be very easy to do :)

Android apps most generally are done with Eclipse, as well.

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Jeff Gray, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year (Alabama, 2008)
Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama
http://cs.ua.edu/~gray

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From: alice-teachers-bounces+gray=cs.ua.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+gray=cs.ua.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Coffey
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Subject: Re: alice-teacher Can Alice be used to Create Mobile Applicatio​ns?

Hi, Doug

IPhone is written in Objective-C.  Unless someone knows how to import Alice 3 code into Objective-C it's a no.

Coffey



On 6/21/11, anita wright <amwright73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Interesting post, I've been thinking about this recently myself...
>
> Since you can port Alice 3 code into the NetBeans environment and have 
> it build Java code, it seems as though you should be able to (at 
> least) take advantage of some  Java "auto code generation" for 
> building Android apps by building a game/whatever in Alice3.  Of 
> course any user events interactivity would have to be coded to interact with the Android interface.
>
> Alice 3 -> iPhone app no way I can think of...
>
> Keep us posted :)
>
> Anita W
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Doug Gregory <douggregory at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> In the fall, I will be teaching a Mobile Applications Development 
>> Class 11-12th graders. I'm searching for an application to use to 
>> accomplish this.
>> I hope to be able to teach my students to code to both Apple and 
>> Android devices. I'm looking for less code and more WYSIWYG interface.
>>
>> Currently, I'm looking into Alice, Appcelerator and Rhomobile. As a 
>> Career and Technology teacher in my district, we try our best to "Certify "
>> students via exam, for example Final Cut Pro or Adobe Photoshop ACE, etc.
>> Appcelerator looks to be only one of those 3 that offers that, but 
>> I'm very afraid of some of the awful things I read about their bad 
>> support and flaky Android apps.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> I will be attending the Alice Training at Texas A&M Corpus Christi in 
>> July.
>>
>>
>> This is my first post to this list, but I have been on it for about 6 
>> months or so.
>>
>> Thanks for any help or ideas!
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Doug Gregory
>> Digital Design & Media Teacher
>> PSJA Memorial High School
>> Alamo, Texas
>>
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