Starting Out with Alice, 3rd edition

Tony Gaddis

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Starting Out with Alice: A Visual Introduction to Programming presents a fun and motivational way for novice programmers to learn the basic tenets of programming. Using Alice, an innovative and increasingly popular teaching tool, readers from a variety of backgrounds create virtual programming worlds of animations and computer games. In the successful style of Tony Gaddis’ texts, useful examples and detail-oriented explanations allow students to become comfortable with fundamental concepts of programming without dealing with frustrating syntax errors and complex design techniques. With the knowledge acquired using Alice, students gain confidence in their skills to transition into Java or other programming languages.

ISBN-13: 9780137618453

Subject: Programming - Introductory

Category: Alice

Brief Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction to Alice and Objects

Chapter 2 Programming in Alice

Chapter 3 Variables, Functions, Math, and Strings

Chapter 4 Decision Structures

Chapter 5 Repetition Structures

Chapter 6 Methods, Functions, and More about Variables

Chapter 7 Events

Chapter 8 Lists and Arrays

Chapter 9 Recursion

Appendix A Installing Alice

Appendix B Answers to Checkpoints

Index

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction to Alice and Objects

1.1 What Is a Computer Program?

1.2 Algorithms and Programming Languages

1.3 Learning to Program with Alice

TUTORIAL 1-1: Opening and playing an Alice world

1.4 Objects

1.5 Classes and the Alice Galleries

TUTORIAL 1-2: Creating a world and adding objects

1.6 3D Objects and the Camera

TUTORIAL 1-3: Moving the camera in 3D space

TUTORIAL 1-4: Manipulating objects in 3D space

TUTORIAL 1-5: Manipulating subpart objects

Review Questions

Chapter 2 Programming in Alice

2.1 Writing Methods

TUTORIAL 2-1: Adding instructions to an Alice world

TUTORIAL 2-2: Exploring additional primitive methods

2.2 Naming Conventions

2.3 Designing a Program

TUTORIAL 2-3: Using the program design cycle

2.4 Comments

TUTORIAL 2-4: Inserting comments

2.5 Tips for Setting Up an Initial Scene

2.6 Executing Instructions Simultaneously

TUTORIAL 2-5: Creating simultaneously executed instructions

2.7 Exporting Your Code for Printing

2.8 Exporting an Alice World to Video

Review Questions

Chapter 3 Variables, Functions, Math, and Strings

3.1 Variables

TUTORIAL 3-1: Creating and using a variable

TUTORIAL 3-2: Creating a set instruction for a variable

3.2 Using Functions

TUTORIAL 3-3: Calling an ask user function

TUTORIAL 3-4: Using a proximity function

3.3 Creating Math Expressions

TUTORIAL 3-5: Using math to avoid collisions

3.4 Working with Strings and Text

TUTORIAL 3-6: Converting a Number variable to a string

Review Questions

Chapter 4 Decision Structures

4.1 Boolean Values

4.2 The If/Else Decision Struc