You are invited to the 2011 NCTIES session "Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming which will be on Friday from 12:10pm to 1:10pm in Meeting Room 302A. Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Look at 2008 blog posts for video samples.
Here is a link to the presentation http://learnalice.googlepages.com/AliceNcaect.ppt
Alice is a Free animation/programming software program from Carnegie Mellon. It encourages students especially girls/minorities to learn programming in a fun way by creating animation/video games as they learn concepts. Studies show students using Alice succeed in future programming classes. http://www.alice.org Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Winner top 3 sessions at 2009 NCTIES!
Come early to preview the prizes. Prentice Hall has donated the following books worth over $388 as door prizes:
Starting Out with Alice: A Visual Introduction to Programming (2nd Edition) (Gaddis Series) $ 75.00
Exploring Wonderland: Java Programming Using Alice and Media Computation (Paperback) $119.00 by Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, and Barbara Ericson
Learning to Program with Alice (2nd Edition) $79.00 by Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, and Randy Pausch
Programming with Alice and Java $113 by John Lewis and Peter Depasquale
Elaine Witkowski, Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Jill Elberson, Randleman Middle School
Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Other, Universities are also teaching Alice as a pre-computer science class.
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