Learning to Program with Alice, 3e is appropriate for all one-semester
pre-CS1 and computer literacy courses, and for integration into the
first weeks of many introductory CS1 courses.
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Alice was designed to make programming concepts easier to teach and
learn. In the Third Edition of Learning to Program with Alice, Alice's
creators offer a complete full-color introduction to the interactive
Alice programming environment. The authors make extensive use of program
visualization to establish an easy, intuitive relationship between
program constructs and the 3D graphics animation action in Alice.
Students discover how Alice blends traditional problem-solving
techniques with Hollywood-style storyboarding. Fundamental
object-oriented programming concepts and language syntax are taught
independently. Programming concepts can be taught from either an
objects-first or an objects-early approach, with an optional early
introduction to events. The book's Java-like syntax allows students to
view their program code, simplifying their transitions to Java, C++, C#,
or other object-oriented languages. This new edition includes over 60%
revised exercises and a "sneak peek" at Alice 3.0.
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Collection of Alice 3D "example worlds" on CD-ROM - Students can
load an example world and enter their own code to make it work.