Introducing Storytelling Alice

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Introducing Storytelling Alice
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• What is Alice?
• Storytelling Alice is an interactive graphics 3D
  programming environment.
• Storytelling Alice is useful for learning how to
  program.
• Storytelling Alice also makes learning to program
  fun. 
• During this course you should explore the many
  possibilities
• for being creative and having fun with Alice.

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• Programming a computer
• Computer programming is not especially difficult.
• It requires an aptitude for solving problems.
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• 3. A computer program is usually a model for a
  solution to someone's problem.
• 4. The important thing is to take the process in
  steps
• 5. Making certain that you understand each step
  before moving on to the next.

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• Not Object Oriented
• 6. Alice is an outstanding product for teaching
  object-based programming.
• 7. Alice is not an object-oriented programming
  (OOP) language.
• 8. Object-Oriented Program can adjust to its
  environment, such as video games.
• 9. Object-Based Program cant adjust to its
  environment. All of the characters in Alice must
  be programmed to do anything.

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• 3D graphics
• 10. Alice makes it possible to write 3D animation
  programs easily.
• Would probably require years in hard-core Java.

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• The Welcome screen
• 11. You can choose from Tutorial, Recent Worlds,
  Templates, Examples, or Open a World

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• The program edit screen
• 12. This shows the screen that you will use to
  develop your Alice programs
• (also known as worlds). 

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• What's next?
• Creating and an Alice world consists of two very
  distinct steps. 
• 13. The first step, (setting the stage) simulates
  a manual process of painting scenery, selecting
  colors, put the players, the scenery, and other
  objects in position on the stage getting ready
  for the curtain to rise, or the cameras to roll.
• 14. The second step is to write the program to
  animate the world causing the players to behave
  according to plan.

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• The Storytelling Alice tutorial
• Click on the tutorials. Go slowly!
• Anybody could speed through it with clicks of the
  mouse.
• Make sure you read so you understand what is
  going on. This will help you later.
• You may  not understand everything in the
  tutorial.  Regardless, you should follow along
  and do all the things that you are instructed to
  do.