Alice: Programming for a New Generation

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 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 and simple video games.

For more information and FREE download: http://www.alice.org

To support the work of the Alice team, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/giving/give.shtml?PCH=626

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Education

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• Alice
• computer
• programming
• introductory
• innovative
• 3D
• interactive
• game
• object
• oriented
• Carnegie
• Mellon
• C++
• Java
• next
• generation
• computing

[RosettaStonedX]

Wow, a 13-year old who can't spell 'college' beat a bunch of actual college students?

[thrivingsmiles]

"The Last Lecture" brought me here (:

[tintintintino]

i'm workin on an Alice project right now, and it's alotta fun. It's true that Alice has a lot of functional limitation and capability, but the good thing is that Alice gives us a brief, crystal sense toward object-oriented world which is required in CS major.

[HostingReviews1]

Thanks for creating such an amazing & innovative teaching tool

[muhammadzahmad]

this is so interesting...

[HydraGoesPro]

This is the DUMBEST thing. I mean really? ALICE is like an awful video game, but that is somehow going to appeal people into becoming a CS major? This is the crap that makes me NOT want to be a CS major. All the points presented by these carnegie mellon morons go both ways. It's useless and a waste of time.

[katheryncruz24]

brilliant.

[agapitoflores001]

Alice is one of the most spectacular animation breakthrough.

[MrJjjakey]

If you want my complaints with it, it's too simple. And limits the user to the possibilities present. You can't make a basic RPG game with Alice, you can with almost any other language.

[MrJjjakey]

I have to program in this language for High School Introduction to Programming. This language is the worst thing I've ever seen.

[silver6162]

CS1 students average a C grade wth Alice a B grade... Basically this is just boosting grades by just giving it for free. Let's take out all the complexity of programming and instead of having a few excellent programmers, let's have thousands of really mediocre ones. (They all do the same right?)

[runningchic5170]

@magnusn12 Once you learn how to program in any language, it is not that hard to learn another language. I suggest learning C++ or Java and getting a good understanding of it before learning Objective C. I knew C++ and Java before i messed with Objective C, but Objective C is still weird to me. I have not done too much with Objective C. Why do you want to learn Objective C?