alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 66, Issue 8

[Jolene Esz]

Our high school uses Alice 2 as a part of a 1 semester elective on
Animation. The class is not necessarily designed as a programming class,
but we use it in the 2nd quarter. We chose 2 because there were more
material available, it is easier for the non programmer, and there are less
" bug" questions. It's worked out well, and we will probably stick with it.
Students here who are truly interested in programming also have AP
programming available, as well and intro to programming course with Java,
so it fills a niche for us.

Jolene Esz
Archbishop McNicholas HS
Cincinnati, Ohio

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:48 AM, robert durtschi via alice-teachers <
alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> We've been using Alice 2 for several years as part of a mandatory course
> at Georgia College.  When Alice 3 was released we discussed it and decided
> to stay with Alice 2 because it was more oriented to teaching non computer
> science majors ".. logical and computational thinking skills and
> fundamental principles of programming. " (from Alice.org).  And because
> there was a dearth of teaching materials for Alice 3. That is not such a
> factor now, but I still feel that Alice 3 has a steeper learning curve than
> Alice 2
>
> Best
> Bob Durtschi
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> Hello,
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> Our high school is considering starting a class in the Fall on learning how
> to use Alice. Do you recommend starting with Alice 2 or 3?
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> Thank you,
> Marcia
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