alice-teacher Alice 3.1 moving objects

[Don Slater]

Alice 3 is designed specifically to support beginning students who will be learning Java or other professional languages, either as part of the current course, or in a subsequent course. Alice 2 is designed for beginning students learning programming fundamentals, but are not immediately interested in learning a particular professional programming language. Alice 3 may also work for these students, but the instructional materials for Alice 3 are probably more focused on the transition to Java, and so I do not think you want to use Ace 3 with your students, at this time.

You mat want to review these documents:

	http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57857409/AliceSuiteDecisionTree.pdf <http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57857409/AliceSuiteDecisionTree.pdf>
	http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57914016/AliceSuite.pdf <http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57914016/AliceSuite.pdf>

Please let me know if you have more questions…

All the best,
Don Slater


> On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Helene Moore <helene.moore at ousd.k12.ca.us> wrote:
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> Hi Don,
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> I'm curious about the difference between Alice 3.1 and 2.4. I teach elementary school and started my 5th graders on 2.4 in January. Should I be looking into learning, then teaching 3.1 for next year? I've been told they are very different programs. I have no programming background, but took Dr. Cooper's great two-week 2.4 workshop this summer.
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> Thank you,
> Helene
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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
> Carol,
> I would first look at updating your video drivers: http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/54959364/Updating%20Video%20Drivers <http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/54959364/Updating%20Video%20Drivers>
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> and if you are working with PC’s, you might adjust your hardware acceleration: http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/86674945/Adjusting%20Hardware%20Acceleration <http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/86674945/Adjusting%20Hardware%20Acceleration>
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> Hope this helps,
> 
> All the best,
> Don Slater
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>> On Feb 27, 2015, at 10:59 AM, mt_cwaddle <CWADDLE at MTRACE.ORG <mailto:CWADDLE at MTRACE.ORG>> wrote:
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>> I've taught Alice 2.2 for the past few years (grades 10-12) and now am getting ready to start Alice 3.1.  Going through the tutorial videos and right away can't get my objects (fish, video 3) to move in any direction except rotate with the green handle.  Can't even get the yellow object box to show when I click on the object.  Am I doing something wrong or could it be a hardware issue?  We've been having lots of those this year.
>> Thanks for any input anyone can give me...
>>  
>> Carol Waddle
>> Miami Trace High School
>> Business Teacher, Scholarship Coordinator
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