[K12OSN] OT: Alice.org

[Todd O'Bryan]

The problem I noticed is that my students spent way more time using
trial and error to get all the numbers right to make their animations
look good than they did thinking.

The new version of Alice is supposed to have more interesting primitives
built in so that students can concentrate more on the sequencing and
problem solving than on the minutiae of getting things to look right. It
should let teachers assign more interesting projects and let students do
more higher level thinking.

Todd

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:43 -0700, Huck wrote:
> Todd, for the benefit of those of us who haven't had the chance...
> what things weren't so good that are improving next year?
> 
> --Huck
> 
> Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> > Wait for the next version, out next year. Alice would make a good intro
> > to programming for middle school, but I didn't like it much when I used
> > it as part of a pre-AP course.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 21:36 -0400, Peter Hartmann wrote:
> >> I just came across this free(as in beer) educational programming
> >> software at Alice.org  developed at Carnegie Melon.   Just thought
> >> people might want to be aware of it and also see if anyone has
> >> experience with it, and to know what they thought.  It looks pretty
> >> cool to me.
> >>
> >> Peter
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