alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9

[Ben]

The new version of flash will recompile your apps foot iphone android and others I believe.

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>   1. Re:  Can Alice be used to Create Mobile Applicatio?ns? (Coffey)
>   2. Re:  Can Alice be used to Create Mobile Applicatio?ns?
>      (Gray, Jeff)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:29:52 -0500
>From: Coffey <ccoffey2006 at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher Can Alice be used to Create Mobile
>	Applicatio?ns?
>To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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>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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>>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:14:40 -0500
>From: "Gray, Jeff" <gray at cs.ua.edu>
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher Can Alice be used to Create Mobile
>	Applicatio?ns?
>To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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>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.
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:30 AM
>To: Alice educators
>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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> alice-teachers mailing list
>>> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers
>>>
>>>
>>
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