alice-teacher Graphic Computer Programming Additional Curriculum

[Lori Fuller]

Alice is based on Java. Perhaps you can assign them an actual java program
that uses methods and let them see the similarities between alice and the
Java language.
Mike
On May 15, 2014 8:33 AM, "Emily Higgins" <[ mailto:erphiggins at gmail.com
]erphiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All -
 I have taught Alice in my programming class for the past three years.
 I need to add more to the course - I have become more efficient in my
teaching.  Does anyone have particular recommendations of what languages
or projects I could add for the portion of the year after I've used Alice?
 I would like it to be something different from Alice.

Thank you all -
Emily Higgins
Boothbay Region High School
Boothbay Harbor, Maine




Greenfoot or BlueJ might be good additions for the Java. I found that
Alice alone was not getting the concepts across to the students. I'm using
Alice 3 with Greenfoot and BlueJ next year with my 2nd level Game
Simulation Design students.

This year I used Alice 2.4 and Codecademy for the 9th graders. Codecademy
is Javascript, but the concept of loops, and if statements are what I was
trying to get them to understand. Best of all, these resources are free.

thanks,

Lori Fuller, M.Ed.
Monarch High School
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Technology Coordinator
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