alice-teacher Alice Facebook Page

[Sandy Graham]

Is there a new book to go with Alice 3.x, then?  

 

Your sister in Christ,

 

Sandy Graham

 

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From: alice-teachers-bounces+sandyg=gvtc.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+sandyg=gvtc.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On
Behalf Of Don Slater
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 4:08 PM
To: pcampbell.dawson at gmail.com; Alice educators
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice Facebook Page

 

The main difference between the three is the intended audience, and the
goals of the course for which each tool will be used.

 

Alice 2.x is intended to be used in formal educational settings (including
home-school settings), from upper elementary, to the first year of college,
for students with no previous programming experience, as an introduction to
basic programming skills and computer science.

 

Alice 3 is intended to be used in formal educational settings (including
home-school settings), from 9th grade, to the first year of college, for
students with no previous programming experience, or who have had a course
using Alice 2.x, as an introduction or review of basic programming skills
and computer science. But the expectation of the course in which Alice 3 is
to be used is that students will transition to a production programming
language, such as Java. In other words, at the end of a course, students
will be expected to be writing code in Java, Java versions of Alice
programs, and more traditional Java programs that one will find in a CS 1 or
AP CS course.

 

Looking Glass is the tool being developed by Dr Caitlin Kelleher's team at
Washington University of St Louis, designed to succeed Storytelling Alice.
It is built on the same framework as Alice 3, but it has features to support
its use in informal settings (after school clubs, etc), for grades 4 - 8. It
has a social component in which students can share their work and actually
copy behaviors and routines from other projects on the website.

 

Alice 2.2 and Alice 3.0 is available at  <http://www.alice.org>
http://www.alice.org, and Alice 3.1 will soon be released at the same
website.

 

Looking Glass is available at  <http://lookingglass.wustl.edu>
http://lookingglass.wustl.edu.

 

Let me know if you have any other questioins.

 

All the best,

Don Slater

 

 

On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Patricia Campbell wrote:

 

> What is the relationship between Alice 2.x & 3 and Looking Glass?  It
looks a lot like Alice.

> 

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Don Slater < <mailto:djslater107 at me.com>
djslater107 at me.com> wrote:

> We now have a more accessible URL to access the "Alice Intro to
Programming" Facebook page we have set up.

> 

>         <https://www.facebook.com/AliceProgramming>
https://www.facebook.com/AliceProgramming

> 

> Check out the image showing some models from the Alice 3 gallery, and look
at the link to Looking Glass, a visual programming environment for learning
through making games and animations. Created by the group headed by Dr.
Caitlin Kelleher at Washington University, St. Louis, creator of
Storytelling Alice.

> 

> Later,

> Don Slater

> 

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