Alice Workshop November 2009 By: Kim Glavan New Lenox School Dist #122

Alice can be downloaded free from thanks to Carnegie Mellon University. It teaches introductory computer programming using 3D objects. Students create programs by dragging and dropping program elements. Can be used on a Mac or PC The newest version Alice 2.2 just came out 6/10/09

There are books out there to help with learning Alice and teaching. By: Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, and Randy Pausch Publisher: Prentice Hall By: Gary Shelly, Thomas Cashman, and Charles Herbert Publisher: Thomson By: Tony Gaddis Publisher: Pearson

This is the Start up dialog box that shows up when you open Alice. Tutorial 1 and Tutorial2 are good places to start. They explain step by step by note cards and you can interact with the tutorial by doing what is needed to make a world.

Up and Down Spin forward or back Resize Copy Tumble Spin left or right Allow mouse to Move subparts Click on the Add Objects button in the lower right of the World view window.

We are going to create a new World in which a penguin will announce what action it is going to perform, and then perform the action. In the Local Gallery > Animals > Penguin You can drag & drop or click on Add to World. Then click the DONE button. Click the Penguin tile in the object tree. In the details area look for penguin say. Drag and drop in Editor area. Click other and type in “I am now going to walk”. Click More > Duration > 2 seconds. Now drag Penguin Move onto the editor area. Click Forward > 1 meter. ** Drag – walk move_time over and click time = 1 In order to do this together we need to drag Do Together from the bottom and put both of these moves inside. Drag penguin say and click other and type in “I am now going to jump up and down”. Click More > Duration > 2 seconds Drag Penguin Move onto the editor area. Click Up > ½ meter More > duration >.25 Drag Penguin Move onto the editor area. Click Down > ½ meter More > duration >.25

Drag penguin say and click other and type in “I am now going to flap my wings”. Click More > Duration > 2 seconds. Drag Wing flap times onto the editor area. Click 2. Drag penguin say and click other and type in “I am now going to turn my head right then left”. Click More > Duration > 2 seconds. Click on head in the object editor the drag head turn > right > ¼ revolution onto the editor area. Drag these directions onto the clipboard and then drop down under above directions. Change right to left. Copy it again and keep it at left. Copy again and change left to right. Drag penguin say and click other and type in “I am now going to make my belly turn blue”. Click on properties and drag over color – set color to Blue > how much – object only > duration 2 sec Drag over color again – set color to no color this time No for the last command – We are going to make the penguin glide off of the page. Click back on the Methods tab and then Penguin. Drag Glide to the edit area. Congratulation you have finished the hardest part of your world! Click play to see how it works.

There is one more thing to do. Under the editor area there is a comment object. Drag this to the editor click other and type in your name. Now let’s see how well you can do a world on your own. Look at the directions for #2 American Chicken Farmers Association and see if you can create this world.