alice-teacher Alice Facebook Page

Fri Mar 9 00:11:25 EST 2012

I have a student who is taking java this year using Alice 2.2.  He wanted to
work with me next year to transition from Alice to plain java and study for
the CLEP exam to hopefully earn a college level computer science credit.
Would the Alice 3.0 be a good way to prep him for the java CLEP exam when
he's already been through Alice 2.2?  If so, would doing so take less than
half a year.

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: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:09 AM
To: Alice educators
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice Facebook Page

This fall we will have a users guide for Alice 3 to accompany a set of
instructional materials for use with Alice 3 in the classroom. The text is
in development now, and will be ready for Fall, 2013.

Let me know if you have any questions.

All the best,

Don Slater

On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:26 AM, Sandy Graham wrote:

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

>  

> Your sister in Christ,

>  

> Sandy Graham

>  

> -----Original Message-----

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> [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:  <mailto:pcampbell.dawson at gmail.com> 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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