Monday 18 June 2012
Story telling through Alice
Alice 3
Creating
Movies and Games as a Motivation for learning Programming thinking
In a global
environment that is increasingly dependent on computing, it is critical that we
our students should be familiar with programming concepts.
Introductory Computer
Science courses often use examples and assignments from the business computing
and systems building domains. These examples are intended as a foundation for
computer science concepts in a domain that makes the problems relevant to students,
yet many students do not begin to see the relevance of their computer science
classes until they are ready for college.
Carnegie
Mellon has created a programming environment, Alice, that allows students to
learn basic computer science while creating animated movies and simple video
games where
students control the behaviors of 3D objects and characters in a virtual
world.
In Alice, students
construct programs by dragging and dropping tiles that represent words in a
programming language; Alice removes the possibility for syntax errors, a common
source of frustration for beginning programmers. Students can watch their programs execute, which
enables students to see where they have made
mistakes. Unlike many programming environments for novices, Alice
allows students to gain experience with all the
programming constructs typically taught in programming courses.
Ozymandias
Ozymandias Alice worlds created by first time users - Teachers at the TGT English In-service course on 13-14 June 2012. A part of their syllabus, the teachers have given their personal touch to the poem.
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
Ozymandias - P B Shelly
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
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