Duke High School Girls Event Materials
July 19, 2007

Here are the materials I used to teach Alice to high school girls in a 75 minute session at Duke on July 19, 2007.

I talked for about 10-15 minutes about computer science, then went through building this world with them. They got all of it done except the last method, the 3D titles and the camera.

• Alice programming environment - free

• Handout - describes how to build Alice World

  • Handout (pdf) - describes how to build Alice world

  • Handout (smaller)(pdf) Handout above smaller version for printing

  • Slides (ppt) - Powerpoint presentation

• snowPeople.a2w - Alice world that is built (without adding the camera)
  Note: if you download it, and it gets renamed to a .zip file, then rename it to snowPeople.a2w (your computer may not know about Alice worlds)

• snowPeopleCamera.a2w - Alice world that is built (with camera views changing to Snowman view and then SnowWoman view)
  Note: if you download it, and it gets renamed to a .zip file, then rename it to snowPeopleCamera.a2w (your computer may not know about Alice worlds)

Shown below are the three camera views. First is the snowman view. He is looking at the snowWoman and the light is behind her so she has a shadow on her. Second is the snowWoman view. She is looking at the snowman. Third is the original position of the camera, panned out to show the complete scene.