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 tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows people to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects. In Alice we 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 us to immediately see how our animation programs run.

1. Day One:
Before We Start
From the Storyboard to the Code:
Programming with Alice
Arizona
State
University
June
2010

2. What do you know today
about programming?

4. Day One:
Introduction to Programming
From the Storyboard to the Code:
Programming with Alice
Arizona
State
University
June
2010

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storyboard
parameter
virtual
object
world
3D
character
ac6on
(method)
value
proper6es
instance
program
a@ribute

6. Step
0:
Open
Alice

7. Step
1:
Choosing
a
Background
When
you
open
Alice,
the
first
thing
you
must
do
is
choose
a
background
for
your
world
(scenario).
You
have
six
different
choices.
For
this
exercise,
choose
from
the
Tab
Templates

grass
background,
and
then
click
Open.
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8. Step
2:
Open
the
Object
Library
Next,
you
can
add
objects
to
your
Alice
World.
Alice
is
full
of
different
kinds
of
objects
to
add
to
your
world.
Click
on
the
green
Add
Objects
bu@on,
to
see
all
the
op6on
inside
Alicie’s
gallery.
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9. Step
3:
Adding
an
Object
Click
on
the
animals
folder
of
objects.
Find
the
Cat
class
and
click
on
it.
Then
use
the
Add
Instance
to
World
bu@on
.
The
cat
object
will
appear
in
your
world.
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Click
the
green
Done
bu@on
to
the
right
to
begin
working
with
your
new
cat.

10. Step
4:
Run
your
world
Now
you
can
take
a
look
of
you
world.
Use
the
Play
bu@on
at
the
leV
up
corner
to
run
your
world.
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11. Step
5:
Adding
more
objects
You
can
add
as
much
objects
as
you
want
to
your
world.
Repeat
the
process
and
add
some
of
them.
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12. Step
6:
Moving
objects
around
As
you
may
no6ce,
all
the
objects
you
add
to
your
world
appears
at
the
center
of
you
scenario.
You
can
select
an
object
(a
yellow
box
appears
around
it)
and
use
your
mouse
(drag
it)
to
move
the
objects
around.
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13. Step
7:
Save
your
World
Now
is
6me
to
save
our
work.
Go
to
the
File
menu

Save
World,
this
open
a
new
window
where
you
will
choose
the
directory
where
you
want
save
your
world
and
the
name
for
it.
To
save
it
use
the
Save
bu@on.
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14. Step
8:
Recover
your
World
If
you
close
Alice
and
then
want
to
recover
your
world.
Open
Alice,
and
use
the
File
menu

Open
World
op6on.
This
will
open
a
new
window,
go
to
the
directory
you
save
your
world,
select
the
desired
file,
and
click
on
the
Open
bu@on.
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