alice-teacher robots in Alice

[Frank Womack]

You might look at the Carnegie Mellon page http://robotics-academy.org/blog/?p=340. A $7 million initiative that combines Alice with their RobotC language.
Here is an excerpt from that page:
The Alice team will collaborate with the Robotics Academy to add virtual worlds to ROBOTC<http://www.robotc.net/>, a programming language developed by the academy that works with many of the educational robotic platforms used in robot competitions. “This new ROBOTC capability will allow students to design and test robots in a virtual environment when it would be impractical to do so with a physical robot. We plan to add other programming languages as the project evolves,”

From: alice-teachers-bounces+womackf=carthage.k12.mo.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+womackf=carthage.k12.mo.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of William Stanard
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:58 AM
To: 'Alice educators'
Subject: alice-teacher robots in Alice

Fellow Alicians,

Not wanting to be left behind in the local (Miami) craze for robots in secondary schools, I wondered if anyone had experience building battling ‘bots in Alice.

As I envision it, each contestant would program an Alice object (maybe, for instance, the gorilla robot) to be a warrior and would save that programmed object as a Class (lots of warrior-like methods complete with parameters to input an opponent) for placement in a world created by the Game Master (e.g., the Alice teacher). The robot who scores the most points, wins the contest. Has anyone tried anything like this?

Regards,
Bill

William W. Stanard
Chair, Academic Computing
Member, English Department
Palmer Trinity School
Miami, Florida
(305) 969-4239

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