[K12OSN] OT: Alice.org

[Chris Bacigalupo]

I've had alot of fun teaching blender and blender programming to kids.
The blender game engine has matured to the point where it's fairly rapid


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:56 -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> 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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