[elearning] Alice 3D programing program

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Paul is right .. the Alice for 3D programming is neat. My primary-school
aged kids taught themselves much about how to use it without my direct
instruction, making small movies to show off something using just the built
in tutorials.

Regards Roland

2009/8/31 Dr Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>

> There are several Alices around ... not all that many years ago, Nigel
> Thomas from RMIT had a CPU simulator (a "glass computer") called Alice.
>
> But such things bear no relationship to www.alice.org, which is very good
> stuff and all about 3D and programming.
>
> > I think the Alice you are referring to is a DOS program. The Alice I
> > referred to is a 3D programming language and has a closer relationship to
> > Java.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Jim Maunder
> > <techo at ruyton.vic.edu.au>wrote:
> >
> >>  Is this any relation to 'Alice Pascal'? see
> >> http://www.templetons.com/brad/alice.html
> >> I can't see any reference to it in either site.
> >>
> >> About half a lifetime ago while doing a Grad Dip Comp by distance
> >> education
> >> from Deakin I used Alice Pascal to help me with assignments. The 'fill
> >> in
> >> the blanks' sty;e of developing code was great for learning how to do
> >> it.
> >>
> >> rgds
> >> Jim
> >>
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> >>
> >> >>> Phil Brown<pdbrown at gmail.com> 28/08/2009 1:49 PM >>>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm not going to cross post after this one - I'll just post to the
> >> elearning list.
> >>
> >> [image: Alice.png]
> >>
> >> Here's a great 3D programing program called Alice and it's a lot like
> >> scratch. This is how it is described on the web site: *Alice is an
> >> innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an
> >> animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video
> >> to
> >> share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.
> >> It
> >> uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more
> >> engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. *
> >>
> >> http://Alice.org
> >>
> >> Phil Brown
> >> WellingtonSC
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