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Title: Creativity Session


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Alice Tea Party with your mad hatterRandy
PauschCarnegie Mellonpausch_at_cmu.edu(this
presentation given at SIGCSE 2005)
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  • Recent surveys show a 23 decline in the
    number of CS majors. We simply can't afford to
    discourage students by needlessly frustrating
    them in their first exposure to computing.

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Thanks to Prentice-Hall for the food drink!
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Thanks to Prentice-Hall for the food drink!
And thanks to Alan Apt!
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Schools (we know of) using Alice
  • Berry College
  • Bucknell
  • CalState Humboldt
  • California Lutheran
  • Camden County College
  • Central Catholic high school (OR)
  • Community College of Philadelphia
  • Cornell University
  • Duke University
  • Georgetown College
  • Haverford College
  • Ithaca College
  • Mississippi Valley State University
  • Plymouth State
  • Saint Joseph's University
  • San Diego State
  • Sierra Nevada College
  • St. Edward's University (TX)
  • Sunset High School (OR)
  • SUNY Tompkins Cortland Community College
  • Sycamore High school (OH)
  • TCCC Tompkins Cortland Community College
  • University of Mississippi
  • Virginia Tech

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Schools (we know of) using Alice
  • Berry College
  • Bucknell
  • CalState Humboldt
  • California Lutheran
  • Camden County College
  • Central Catholic high school (OR)
  • Community College of Philadelphia
  • Cornell University
  • Duke University
  • Georgetown College
  • Haverford College
  • Ithaca College
  • Mississippi Valley State University
  • Plymouth State
  • Saint Joseph's University
  • San Diego State
  • Sierra Nevada College
  • St. Edward's University (TX)
  • Sunset High School (OR)
  • SUNY Tompkins Cortland Community College
  • Sycamore High school (OH)
  • TCCC Tompkins Cortland Community College
  • University of Mississippi
  • Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech used Alice for all 1,300 freshmen
in the Engineering School!
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Alice
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The Alice System (www.alice.org)
  • Allows college students to learn computer
    programming more easily
  • Drag-and-Drop editor for creating programs
  • Their programs are 3d movies or games
  • Has been formally shown to improve learning and
    retention
  • Highly motivates students
  • Provided free (open source) by Carnegie Mellon

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"Programming in Alice is time consuming, but it's
not frustrating. -Luis Rodriguez, Age 17
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Alice helps at-risk CS majors
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Alice helps at-risk CS majors
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Alice helps at-risk CS majors
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1,000 free objects in the gallery
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Stencils Tutorial
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Stencils Tutorial
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Questions?
Alice is free from www.alice.orgAnd you have
itOn CD-ROM today
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