1. karina Assiter CCSC RM 2015 October 1-2.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ALICE PROGRAMMING AS A STEAM ENGAGEMENT TOOL: TUTORIAL
karina Assiter
CCSC RM 2015 October 1-2.

2. Outline Motivation Background What is Alice? Getting your feet wet:
Download Alice
Opening Alice
Opening and creating Projects
Creating objects
References

3. Motivation
Attracting under-represented groups into STEAM pipeline top priority
Even more important as population becomes increasingly diverse
According to US censes, by 2044, more than half of all Americans are projected to belong to minority group.
General agreement: we must start early
Elementary or middle school.
Strategies (see references)
Numerous tools/environments
Workshops, summer and after school programs aimed at both kids and K-12 teachers

4. What is Alice? 3D Programming environment
Freely available teaching tool
Designed to be a student’s first exposure to OOP
Easy to create an animation for
Storytelling
Playing an interactive game or video to share on the Web
Accessible to novices and still challenging for experienced users

5. Background Annual 1 day WIT SWE girl-scout event
CS faculty teach 1 hour workshop (4 x )
This year, Alice
Tremendous success, expressed in this parent’s
THANK YOU for the February 7th STEM event! Zoe loved the STEM event she took at Wentworth. … So far she has spent hours on ALICE and has eagerly shown her family all her Alice projects. I am thrilled with the knowledge and exposure it has provided to Zoe. I am also thankful for GS and Wentworth for hosting STEM events- please continue! Zoe is eagerly looking forward to the next STEM event so keep me on any distribution list for future events.
..and surveys, of course. We

6. Example – Quick Demo

7. Lets get started...
the fun part.

8. Downloading & Installing
Go to
Select Downloads/Alice 3
Select the download for your machine type.
Once downloaded, find and select the Installer

9. Starting Alice Select Alice 3 startup icon
Welcome dialog box appears (Figure 1)
Templates tab automatically selected.
Select a template (background for a scene) and hit ok
Code Editor appears (Figure 2)
Selected template scene appears in upper left corner
Figure 1 – Welcome Dialog box
Figure 2 – Code Editor

10. Add objects Select Setup Scene (FIgure 1) Browse and select objects
Either click or drag to place in scene (Figure 2)
Select
Figure 1 – Code Editor
Figure 2 – Scene with objects

11. Layout scene (arrange objects)
Change camera

12. Altering properties of objects
Object selected

13. Exploration Time Creating objects Laying out your scene
Changing object properties
Once you’re done we’ll continue with adding behavior…

14. Add object behavior – Part 1
Return to Code editor
Click on
Select class then select option to create a procedure (Figure 1)
Name your procedure (Figure 2) .
Click bring up list of classes
procedure
Figure 1 – Create a procedure
Figure 2 – Name procedure

15. Add object behavior – Part 2
Select object and it’s procedure (Figure 1)
Drag and drop into procedure (Figure 2)
Procedures, Functions, and Contral Statement options (you’ll be prompted to add details)
Object selected
Procedure
Selected
Drag & drop
Figure 1 – Create a procedure
Figure 2 – Drag procedures, functions, control

16. Call object’s method Select Scene’s myFirstMethod Select your object
Drag method into myFirstMethod
Run to test
3. Drag
2. Object selected

17. Add Multi-object behaviors
Select object
Drag to myfirstMethod an interactive procedure
You’ll be prompted to select an object to interact with .
Cat will move toward person.

18. Exploration Time
Adding object behavior

19. Exploration Time Adding object behavior No more formal instruction
I’ll help you individually as needed
Maybe you’ll even learn something and show me  as the girl scouts did in their workshop…

20. Thanks for attending!
references follow

21. References
Adams, J.C., Alice : Middle Schooler's & the Imaginary Worlds Camps. Proceedings SIGCSE, , 2007.
Alice, (accessed June 2015).
Alice Tutorials, (accessed September 2015)
Colby, Sandra L., and Jennifer M. Ortman. Projections of the Size and Composition of the US Population: to Current Population Reports, Washington, DC: US Census Bureau, 2014.
Etoys,
GameFront,
Girl Scouts Research Institute, Generation STEM: What girls say about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. New York, NY: Girl Scout Research Institute, 1-39, 2012.
Lifelong Kindergarden MIT Media Lab. Scratch, (accessed July 10, 2015).
MIT Education Arcade. StartLogo TNG,
Peluso, E M, and E Mauch,Incorporating Alice into a Summer Math and Science Outreach Program, Alice Symposium, Durham, NC , 2009.
Werner, L, S Campe, and J Denner. Children Learning Computer Science Concepts via Alice Game- Programming, SIGCSE Raleigh, NC: ACM