alice-teacher Summer Camp request

[Mike Kienenberger]

This course does not use Alice, but the University of California,
Berkeley provides all of the course materials for their introductory
computer science curriculum (CS 10) online, including videos of the
lectures and lab exercises.    It uses Snap (previously known as BYOB)
which is an extended form of the Scratch programming language (sort of
like Alice in 2D instead of 3D).

It's all freely available without obligation or registration for
anyone who wants to work through the course.

I have used selected parts of the material to teach a mixed group of
4th to 6th graders.

I think an 8th grader who was enthusiastic about the material could
work through the lab exercises on their own, possibly even without
watching the videos.

I have a master's degree in Computer Science, and I think the lab work
does a good job of covering the basic introductory topics --
encapsulation, abstraction, recursion, algorithms, lists -- in a fun
way.

http://bjc.berkeley.edu/

There are now four semesters of the class materials available:

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/sp12/


I would love to see something similar available for Alice.



On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Heather Cobban
<Heather.Cobban at yesnet.yk.ca> wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know of any "summer school" type enrichment programs
> featuring Alice 2.2 for middle school students, that might be available with
> scholarship?  One of my previous grade 8 students was so enthused with
> Alice, & really left the rest of us far behind in his pursuits.  He happens
> to be a foster child who doesn't excel at much else in school, but is
> extremely enthused about pursuing this line for his future career, and is a
> very pleasant individual, interacts very well with his fellow students.  I
> don't think he has experienced much enrichment in his life, & it would be a
> wonderful opportunity if he might be able to attend a special summer program
> at some point featuring further exploits in Alice (with a teacher having
> much more expertise than myself).  If you happen to know of anything along
> these lines, I would be most interested to learn about it.  Many thanks,
> again!
>
> Very best,
>
> Heather Cobban <Heather.Cobban at yesnet.yk.ca>
> Watson Lake, Yukon
>
> <snip>
>
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