How to learn computer programming with Alice ?
by Gabi SolomonAs most of you know computer programming is not an easy subject and most of the time people dont get into it because they cant understand teh concepts or they find it to boring.
Well Carnegie Mellon University has thought about this and developed and is distributing for free a praject call Alice. Alice is “designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming.” The original version is designed for high school and college students; there’s also a modified version geared for middle school students.
With the original version of Alice, kids can create movies and simple video games; the drag-and-drop design makes syntax errors less likely and easier to correct.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment for building animations in the form of stories, games, and web-ready videos. Alice teaches programming. Alice version 2.0 is in common use. Alice 3.0 is in active development with a projected launch date of August 2009.
Alice 2.0 has been very successful and enjoyed an adoption rate of 10% in US colleges and is expanding rapidly into high schools. We expect Alice 3.0 to surpass this mark considerably.
You can watch a full presentation and demostration of Alice 3.0, Introductory Programming in 3D on youtube by cliking this link.
Alice presentation video
Alice FPS game example
Related Posts
-
Ebay hot items
