Adventures in
Alice Programming
Duke University, Durham, NC
Workshop Schedule June 18-22, June 25-29, 2012
This workshop was held in Summer 2012
The two-week Beginner Alice workshop will be held from (breakfast at 8:30am), 9am-4pm in LSRC D106 and includes breakfast, lunch and snacks. There is no charge for the workshop. Breakfast and lunch include demos and discussions.
Please see the logistics page for directions, parking passes, and housing at the Brookwood Inn.
Pictures and article about the workshop
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Article and pictures on Duke CS web page (pictures from Duke photography)
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Same pictures from Duke photography on facebook page
- Pictures Prof. Rodger Took
Week 1
Many of these tutorials are listed on the main tutorial page. Alice worlds not linked in are likely already on the main tutorial page or on the main examples page.
Monday, June 18, 2012 - Day 1
- Breakfast - Answer Questions
- Welcome and Motivation (pdf) (pdf 4 per page)
- Research Study
- Pretest
- Demographics
- Tutorial: An Introduction to Alice - Astronaut/Humvee on Moon
- Lunch - Introductions
- Alice Demos
- Kitty Story - story of handicapped child (but characters are cats).
- SarahPalinFall08.a2w - SarahPalin Rescue Husband Todd world
- Hot Spot Volcano (H.S. teacher)
- Frogger Game - Interactive game - move frogger from one lily pad to the other with arrow keys.
- Tutorial: Princess Dragon Part I
- Tutorial: Princess Dragon Part 2 (start)
- Breakfast - Answer Questions
- Tutorial: Princess Dragon Part 2 (finish)
- Tutorial: Princess Dragon Part 3
- Lunch with Alice Demos
- Ch4Haloween.a2w Halloween Greeting Card
- Advanced Spanish - make banana bread and set the table
- Simple spanish world to pick the spanish word for the animal.
- Math - Random Sample
- Ride bike to collect data and plot the points
- Adventure game - find missing homework in house
- Tutorial: Princess Dragon Part 4
- Storyboards /Exercise
- Steve Cooper, Stanford University visiting today.
- Breakfast - answer questions - Steve and Susan
- Show teacher princess dragon worlds
- Motivation 2 talk (pdf) and (4 per page pdf)
- Tutorial: How Tall are you? Introducing Decisions and the Use of Functions (Penguin and Boy)
- Lunch - Steve Cooper Demos
- Tutorial: Headshots in Alice - Add 2d heads to bodies
- Alice Demo
- BallerinaDance.a2w - Ballerina Dance with heads replaced
- Breakfast - answer questions
- Tutorial: Kangaroo Visit Friends - making methods more flexible with parameters
- Tutorial: Export video and export code
- Alice demos by Mike Hoyle
- Keyboarding bike race
- Graphing
- prom dance
- fish fractions
- Demos at Lunch
- Alice demo by Michael Marion
- Astroids game
- Alice Demos
- Eragon - Includes four tasks, interactive, score, timer
- Book Report
- DDR Alice world - Dance Dance Revolution interactive world - press arrow keys on keyboard.
- Walkoff Alice world Memory Game 1 with Derek Zoolander vs Hansel.
- Music lessons - guess the instrument
- Putt-Putt
- Blanton mentioned these videos by Gina Grannis - she uses these videos to show different types of video creations in her classroom.
- Duke Photo setup at 12:30 - 1pm.
- Tutorial: Making Objects Move in Unison: Using Lists
- Tutorial: Bunny eat broccoli: Repetition - Simple loops and conditional loops (while)
- Work on lesson plans
- Tutorial: Changing Color - Advanced Functions
- We wrote four functions
- We learned how to make a random number and store it in a variable
- Tutorial: Lights Camera, Action - BDE Tutorial
- Mike Marion - talked/demoed on perspectives
- Alice Demos at Lunch
- Chris Brown demoed worlds
- Dana Murphy demoed worlds
- Work on Lesson plans
- Possible Lesson Plan Templates
Week 2
Monday, June 25, 2012 - Day 6
- Tutorial: Repetition Everywhere - comparing while in a method and as an event. (more with while, while event (BDE - Begin, During, End) and when event).
- Tutorial: Creating a fancier chicken - Inheritance
- Tutorial: Scene Change - we will put up a modified scene change by Aug. 4.
- Lunch - how to make Alice cookies for your students
See computer science - Alice Cookies - 1pm Richard Lucic
- Work on Lesson Plans
- Added more lesson plan templates to last Friday
- Breakfast - talked about lesson plans.
- Tutorial: Simple Quiz - TODO: we will add the score to it
- Alice Demos at Lunch
- ESL world - Narrate a story - first put pictures in order, then type a phrase for each picture, then play story.
- Build blocks game with snap in motion
- Gravity demo
- Scarab Beetles game
- Octopus Ride at the fair
- Dive Tour 1:30-3pm
- Afternoon - work on Lesson plans and Alice worlds
- 11am Teacher Kristin Bedell speaking
- Alice Demos at Lunch
- Car Smash - middle school boy - You drive the helicopter close to the car to pick up the accident victim
- Fish Pond repopulation and Bar Chart
- Boat game under arcs with timer and score (on tutorial page)
- Adventure game - find the treasure on the island (on tutorial page)
- WacAMole Alice World (also in Alice book)
- Teacher Mary Jackson presentation 11am
- Alice Demos
- fog - poem (on video page)
- PJ's dream (on video page)
- School Safety world
- Camera Angles world
- Erich (middle school boy) Sci Fi World
- orient to example world and code (html)
- Need tutorial on how to save out a group of objects as one object
- Pixar short Lifted - google it
- Subscribe to the Alice listserv
- Using D344 in the afternoon
- Finish research study
- Alice Demos shown
- Spin The Bottle Alice world
- Bumper Cars
- Bee World - game with tutorial
- firstYearDuke.a2w - First Year at Duke - interactive story
- Improper Fractions story with dog eating pizza - From Danica McKeller's book (on example's page)
- geometry demo (on tutorial's page)
- quiz template (on tutorial's page)
- Alice Symposium at Duke 2009
- new Alice Models built
- FBI Alice contest winners
- Scratch
- FBI Alice contest winners
- CS Unplugged
- CSED Week
- Rodger's Alice course at Duke
- Array Tutorial - need to post on tutorial page
- Handout of tutorials done at workshop prepared by teacher Deborah Daniels doc and pdf