Alice is an object-based, open source, educational programming language with an integrated development environment (IDE). Alice uses a drag and drop interface that allows users to create 3D animations, stories and video games.
Alice is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools (and sometimes even younger) to universities, in school classrooms and in after school and out of school programming, and in subjects ranging from visual arts and language arts to the fundamentals of programming and introduction to Java courses.
Alice exists in two versions. According to the makers, children are recommended to use the older version 2. This version teaches logical thinking and the basics of programming. The new version 3 focuses on object-oriented programming.
1. Tutorials by Alice.org
This is a series of tutorials covering areas in scene building, building a program, designing an animation, making procedural methods, control structures do together, control structures loops, and an introduction to events.
2. Alice Version 3 Tutorials Summer 2013-2017 by Susan Rodger
This is a good set of tutorials which starts assuming no previous experience with Alice version 3. There are no pre-requisites to these tutorials which make them ideal for a student’s first Alice tutorial.
There’s also a series for Alice version 2.
3. Learn to Program using Alice by Richard G. Baldwin
This series of tutorial lessons is designed to teach aspiring programmers who have no programming experience how to program using the Alice programming environment.
4. Introduction to Alice Programming by Richard G. Baldwin
The target audience for this article includes experienced programmers who would like an interesting diversion from work while eating lunch at their desk, and experienced programmers who have children, grandchildren, siblings or friends who need to learn how to program.
All tutorials in this series:
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