What is Alice?

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

Tutorial:

Alice v2.0 includes an on-line tutorial and documentation system. The best way to learn about Alice is to go through the tutorial. This works especially well with a friend.

To view the Alice tutorial, launch Alice and click on the "Start the Tutorial" button in the Welcome to Alice dialogue box. You can also jump to a specific tutorial by clicking on one of the tutorial worlds below the "Start the Tutorial" button.

• How to play Alice worlds in your web browser
• How to import 3D models into Alice
• Download Alice

Courtesy: Alice.org