NCTIES-Why come to Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming

The "Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming will be on Thursday from 11:45am-12:30pm in Meeting Room 301A.

Here is a link to the presentation.

Here is a sample of what Alice can do.

Here is Owen, a 7th grade student, talking about an Alice game he created. (A permission form is on file for his interview to be on the Internet)



Description from the NCTIES program: Alice is a Free animation/programming software program donated by Carnegie Mellon University. It encourages students especially girls and minorities to learn programming in a fun way by creating animation and/or video games as they learn concepts. Studies show students using Alice continue and succeed in future programming classes. http://alice.org Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Elaine Witkowski, Archdale-Trinity Middle School Jill Elberson, Randleman Middle School Target Audience: Middle, High, K-12, Other, Universities are also teaching Alice as a pre-computer science class. Strand: Increasing Student Interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)