alice-teacher A2/A3 Textbooks

Wed Mar 5 09:07:10 EST 2014

I have reviewed the textbook noted by Gilbert as well ("Learning Java Through Alice" by Tebring Daly and Eileen Wrigley, ISBN 9781491073933) and have corresponded with Ms. Daly to acquire the instructor resources as well. The authors do a great job of injecting Alice 3.x into the Java material being taught. 
As we evolve our computer science curriculum and provide for more robust offerings, our plan here is to use this book beginning next school year in our sophomore level course (all sophomores are required to take a semester of computer science). Hats off to Ms. Daly and Ms. Wrigley!

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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:09:05 -0500
From: Gilbert Stankiewicz <gilbert at cpcs.us>
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LaShonda,

I'm just getting started with the text "Learning Java Through Alice" by Tebring Daly and Eileen Wrigley, ISBN 9781491073933.  Using the NetBeans Alive plugin, students can import programs created in Alice 3.1 into the NetBeans IDE.  They can then examine and modify the code directly in NetBeans.  The text guides the student through the process while also introducing Java programming.

This is the only text I found that combines Alice 3.1 programming with Java. I am quite excited about the possibilities this provides for the small class of high school seniors in the course.

Gilbert

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:02 PM, LaShonda Torbert < LTorbert at stoneridgeschool.org> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I was just wondering if anyone uses a textbook with Alice. If you do, 
> what are your recommendations for a textbook? If you don?t use a 
> textbook, are there other resources that you use?
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> I will be teaching a class for the first time, and I?m just curious 
> about what other teachers do for Alice at the high school level. I had 
> a class that used Alice in college that didn?t use a textbook, and we 
> were fine with just the teacher?s notes.
>
> Thanks,
> LaShonda
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> LaShonda Torbert
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> On 3/3/14, 3:15 PM, "Don Slater" <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:15:26 -0500
From: "Lori Fuller" <lori.fuller at browardschools.com>
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Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on March 3, 2014 at
9:02 PM -0500 wrote:
>I was just wondering if anyone uses a textbook with Alice. If you do, 
>what are your recommendations for a textbook? If you don?t use a 
>textbook, are there other resources that you use?
>
>I will be teaching a class for the first time, and I?m just curious 
>about what other teachers do for Alice at the high school level. I had 
>a class that used Alice in college that didn?t use a textbook, and we 
>were fine with just the teacher?s notes.

Learning to Program with Alice, 3rd Ed. is an excellent resource. I'm hoping they are coming out with 4th Ed. soon... It provides good instruction on how to program using Alice and has many opportunities for practice and understanding. Along with the tutorials provided on Duke's website, I've managed to fill 3/4 of the year so far. 

I am reviewing several books for the Alice 3, but not found one I like for everything. May need to combine with a JAVA programming text to fill an entire year.

thanks,

Lori Fuller, M.Ed.
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