alice-teacher From under the Bridge: BYOD

[Fabrizio DellaCorte]

Hello Sandy,
I recently start teaching a beginners CS class at a US university in
Switzerland using Alice, and I also find the software and the book well
designed. 
Could you please share Which version of the Alice IDE are you using to teach
your students?  
I noticed that the text book and the online exercises use Alice 2.x and, I
understand from Wanda Dann and Steve Cooper, that there is no conversion
tool for the projects (words) from 2.x to 3.1.
Regards,
Fabrizio DellaCorte

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From: alice-teachers-bounces+fdellacorte=fc.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+fdellacorte=fc.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On
Behalf Of Sandy Graham
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 6:28 AM
To: Alice educators
Subject: Re: alice-teacher From under the Bridge: BYOD

I love the book and find it very well written. I admit getting most of my
students to read it is like pulling teeth, though. Those who do read it and
do the embedded exercises find the assignments much easier, though -
obviously. They all love the tutorials at the beginning and I think they'd
love doing the whole book like that, but developing all that would be quite
expensive and would deprive them the opportunity to learn to learn from a
book. I only see my students once per week so I could not soon feed the info
to them if I wanted. But, making the whole book into a series of tutorials
would definitely enable students (and adults) to self-study.

Sandy Graham
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On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Marty Schultz <schultz_marty at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Why not come up with a method of hosting Alice servers in a cloud, and 
> an
> browser(jQuery) front end to make things fast?
> Even if there's a small cost to the hosting, it would probably be 
> minimal (less than the cost of a book per student).
> 
> 
> 
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> u] On Behalf Of Don Slater
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:44 AM
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> Subject: alice-teacher From under the Bridge: BYOD
> 
> New blog post.
> 
>    http://aliceprojectcmu.blogspot.com
> 
> Thanks,
> Don Slater
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