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Alice 3 Webinar

Claire DeanStirling Primary School (on behalf of Oracle)claired@stirlingps.co.za

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Alice 3

• Oracle has been funding this platform and it is designedto be fun, easy, and engaging for students. • Alice successfully awaken students’ interest in computer programming.

• It has been developed at Carnegie Mellon University

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What is Alice?

• Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story.

• Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.

• It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies.

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Why use Alice?

• In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#.

• Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behaviour of objects in their animation.

• By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

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Please contact:

Sonja Balt

Oracle Learning Initiatives Programme Manager

Email: sonja.balt@oracle.com

Tel: (011) 319 4330

Do you want to teach any of the following at your school?