alice-teacher Alice 3 Instructional Materials

[Don Slater]

The following webpage contains preliminary instructional materials for Alice 3. 

	http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=3.1/download_materials

These materials have been developed with support from the National Science Foundation.

These are preliminary in that they are part of a complete set that is still under development. We are releasing these now to allow instructors to see the materials that will be available as they make plans for teaching Alice 3 this fall. The set will be continually updated over the coming months.

These materials include:

	* A How-to Guide for Alice 3. (.pdf) This is not a text but a reference / overview of the Alice 3 programming system. Currently in .pdf form, it will soon be released in eBook formats for different mobile devices. There are two separate sections, "Getting Started" and "How to Setup a Scene" that can be downloaded separately, or as a complete edition. There will be more sections added in the coming months.

	* Curriculum Materials. The first four units for an Alice 3 course. These materials include Powerpoint slides, sample worlds, and screen casts. These units cover the following topics, "Using Alice 3", "Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving", "Procedures and Parameters", "Using Functions". There will be more units, as well as exercises, quizzes, and labs, added in the coming months.

	* Screencasts. Different from the screencasts that accompany the curriculum materials, these videos present an overview of the Alice 3 programming system. Topics include "A Brief Tour of Alice 3", "Gallery Tour", "Adding Objects to a Scene", and "Moving Objects". There will be more screencasts released in the coming months.

We ask you to respect the following terms and conditions for use of these materials:

* You can make available the material to your TAs/graders
* You can make available portions of the material to the students in your course on hardcopy handouts or on Web pages that are either password-protected or accessible only from your university domain
* You are not allowed to make the material or its solutions available on a publicly accessible Web site, but you may link to this page from your website.
* Use of the materials from this website in publications or other commercial endeavors is not permitted and will be considered a violation of copyright. 

Let me know if you have any questions / problems…

All the best,

Don Slater
Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

dslater at cmu.edu