From beck at sdsu.edu Mon Jul 6 14:05:05 2026 From: beck at sdsu.edu (Leland Beck) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 11:05:05 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Alice programming courses Message-ID: Dear Alice-teachers Community, We are redesigning our intro to computing course for non-majors, which satisfies a General Education requirement in quantitative reasoning. About half of the class time will be spent on learning programming concepts, and for a variety of reasons we have decided to use Alice 3 as the main programming language. We would like to learn as much as possible about other courses that teach programming using Alice 3. If you teach such a course, we'd appreciate any information that you can send us about it -- syllabus, course description, name of the text or other materials, etc. Please reply directly to me (beck at sdsu.edu).. If I get enough direct replies, I'll post a summary to the list. Thanks for your help! Leland Beck Department of Computer Science San Diego State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dabeshou at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Jul 14 10:04:19 2026 From: dabeshou at andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Abeshouse) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:04:19 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher Help Shape the Future of Alice: 5-Minute Onboarding Feedback Survey Message-ID: This is a request from CMU students who would appreciate your feedback about Alice. Thanks for helping them if you can. -- Daniel Abeshouse Alice Project Carnegie Mellon University Dear Alice Instructors, We are a joint CMU ? Microsoft team currently working on a project to refactor Alice 3. Our goal is to modernize the platform and deliver a smoother, more intuitive experience for both educators and students. As we prepare to test the new refactored version, we need to gather verbatim user data from real-world classrooms. We want to understand the very first moments of the current Alice software experience?specifically, what happens during the first 10 minutes of use. Please take a few moments to fill out our questionnaire: https://forms.gle/pqbABXNx2yjG53Zi7? How can you help: For Instructors: Please use the survey to share your overall classroom observation?the common patterns, bottlenecks, or successes you notice from your students. For Students: We want to hear directly from them, too! Please share this survey link with your students and encourage them to fill out the section about their own first 10 minutes with the software. Your insights will directly impact how we rebuild the onboarding flow and interface. Thank you so much for your time, your dedication to teaching, and for helping us build a better Alice 3! Best regards, The CMU ? Microsoft Alice 3 Refactoring Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: