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[Tamara Mazza]

Thank you so much!
Tamara Mazza

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Contact Dr Steve Cooper at coopers at cs.stanford.edu, who will be able to
> provide login / password information for http://www.aliceprogramming.net.
> This site contains a number of instructional materials including syllabi,
> sample exams and test banks, projects, exercises and their solutions.
>
> It is password protected to try reduce access to the solutions to
> students. Dr Cooper will ask that you verify that are a teacher by
> providing a school email address or a link to a school website with your
> information.
>
> We would be very interested to hear more about your comment that Alice 3.0
> confuses students when preparing students for the AP Computer Science exam.
> I am guessing that you are not preparing Middle School students for the AP
> Exam.
>
> At this time, Alice Level 2 may be a better choice for Middle School
> students as it is designed to introduce programming fundamentals to
> students and does not specifically refer to any professional development
> language, such as Java. Their is also a larger set of instructional
> materials available for Alice 2, although Alice 3 is catching up.
>
> Alice 3 is designed to introduce fundamental programming concepts to
> students, in courses in which students will be starting to learn the Java
> programming language. Because of the number of topics covered in the APCS
> Exam, I can understand that to start with Alice and cover the entire AP
> curriculum in one year may be a bit much.
>
> But we would love to hear of other’s experience with Alice 3 as they
> prepare students for the AP.
>
> All the best,
>
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Team
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Entertainment Technology Center
> 700 Technology Drive
> Pittsburgh, PA 15219
>
> Email: dslater at cmu.edu
>
> I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances
> confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
> he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
> --- Henry David Thoreau
>
> The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Tamara Mazza <tamara.mazza at ahschool.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am being told that I should only teach Alice 2.0 to Middle School
> students.  The reason is that 3.0 confuses them when preparing them for the
> AP Computer Science test.  If this is the case does anyone have some lesson
> plans for Alice 2.0.
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> It has been mentioned by several that the link to the archives for the
>> Alice Educator’s Mailing List was broke. In checking with Computing
>> Services here at Carnegie Mellon, they reported that “... a typo was
>> introduced into our web server configuration. This has been fixed and the
>> alice-teacher archives are available again.”
>>
>> Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and please let us know if
>> you have any other problems.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Don Slater
>> Alice Team
>> Carnegie Mellon University
>> Entertainment Technology Center
>> 700 Technology Drive
>> Pittsburgh, PA 15219
>>
>> Email: dslater at cmu.edu
>>
>> I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances
>> confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
>> he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
>> --- Henry David Thoreau
>>
>> The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton
>>
>>
>>
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*Sincerely, *
*Tamara Mazza*

*Computers - 6, 7, & 8th Grade*
*Student Government Advisor*
*Stallion Today (Middle and Lower School Daily Announcements)*
*Click here to View <http://www.useducationtv.com/default.aspx?sid=16072>*

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