Pdf we describe storytelling alice, a programming environment that. Can middleschoolers use storytelling alice to make games. By dragging and dropping, users can construct programs that direct the behavior of characters in. Alice 3 is the newest installment of the alice programming language.
Using the storytelling alice programming environment to create computeranimated movies. Using storytelling to motivate programming computer science. This is a modification to the storytelling alice project, based off of alice 2. Storytelling alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students particularly girls to learn to program. Looking glass is the successor to storytelling alice designed for middle and high school students.
Users of storytelling alice were more motivated to program. Then add the next method call or construct in and run storytelling alice to make it is working properly. In order to understand how people use our site generally, and to create more valuable experiences. An educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3d environment 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. This chapter describes how to install the software and how to add a device so your computer can communicate with your alice system. Hapter software installation and setup once you have installed your alice 5 equipment, you will need to install the alice sleepware software on your computers. Find free and premium storytelling classes online taught by the worlds best writers. We can think of an alice program as being somewhat like a script for a theatrical play. Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer. Storytelling alice was succeeded by the interactive storytelling application looking glass. To enable and encourage users to create animated stories, storytelling alice includes. The alice team has created a library that allows you to develop alice worlds directly in the netbean environment. This is free software from carnegie mellon university.
Caitlin kelleher, randy pausch, sara kiesler, storytelling alice. An educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3d. Storytelling alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students particularly girls to learn to program computers through creating short 3d animated movies. Using the storytelling alice programming environment to create computer animated movies. Run storytelling alice with just one method call or construct to make sure that it is working properly. Alice is an objectbased educational programming language with an integrated development. Save your world in alice and bring it into netbeans and make the jump to real java coding with the same joy of creating a rich 3d world. Alice is designed to teach logical and computational thinking skills. Storytelling alice this is free software from carnegie mellon university.
It has all of the features that have made alice an exciting and creative first programming experience with an added emphasis on objectoriented concepts. Middleschool, pair programming, storytelling alice, it fluency. He first broke onto the vr scene when he published a paper called vr on 5 dollars a day. Instead of traditional computation, some of the ideas alice uses to encourage programming are three dimensional graphics and storytelling 2. Continue to do this until you find the problematic line. Netbeans is modular development environment that is primarily for developing java applications. Alice 3 has a new rich gallery of models that includes everything you need to spark your creativity including. Then delete all but the first method call or construct from the editing area. Unlike many of the puzzlebased coding applications alice motivates learning through creative exploration. Pdf storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn.