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Alice is a modern programming environment designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn basic computer science while creating animated movies, simple video games, where students control the behavior of 3D objects and characters in a virtual world.
What is and what can I do with Alice?
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Emphasis on object-oriented concepts and a full transition to the Java programming language.
What is Alice 3.x
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Some objects have pre-compiled animations, which are also known as pre-compiled....
What are methods.
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Placing something into the world
What is adding an object?
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What was "Alice" named after?
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
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What year was the first version of Alice released?
What is 1999
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What's one of the big differences between Alice99 and Alice2.0?
What is All code can be dragged and dropped, or, it is now intended for programming students.
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How do you make the camera follow an object?
What is making it a vehicle
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This object can turn, roll, move and is automatically added to the world
What is the Camera?
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Name any of the three things that the Alice environment provides.
Interactive Objects Ease of Manipulation GUI Control panels
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Who was the original Alice developer?
Who is Randy Pausch (now deceased)
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Being developed at Washington University in St. Louis
What is Looking Glass?
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Something that can be manipulated within the confines of a program, or something that doesn't exist before an instance of the class has been created.
What is an object, in programming.
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Described as a template or blueprint for an object.
What is a class?
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What does each Alice object have?
A list of properties?
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Sept. 18, 2007
What is the date Dr. Pausch delivered "The Last Lecture" or "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"
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Who originally created Alice storytelling as part of her doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon?
Who is Caitlin Kelleher
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What group of customizable objects have no manipulable parts?
What are People!
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A series of commands that you have given an object
What is a procedure?
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Who provided pre-made characters in Alice 3?
EA-providing characters from their game "The Sims"
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Programming language that Alice is based on.
What is Java?
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For learning logical and computational thinking skills and fundamental principles of programming.
What is Alice 2.x?
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Added to Alice to allow you to control a camera or object
What is Keypressed Listener or Arrowkeypressed Listener?
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0% renders an object invisible, while 100% renders an object completely opaque.
What is opacity?
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In order to have an object do anything you need to do this.
What is code or edit code?