Unlike many of the puzzlebased coding applications alice motivates learning through creative exploration. Looking glass is giving younger users experience in how to program like. It features a syntaxdirected editor, compatibility with borlands turbo pascal, extensive help. Students will gain a better understanding of the physics behind. The alice programming environment runs on windows or mac operating systems. Alice programming language, a functional programming language designed by the programming systems lab at saarland university. By offering an entirely new approach to the preparation of programs, alice gives users the chance to concentrate on the important aspects of programming and to avoid most of the mundane stumbling blocks that often loom so large. We present alice, a functional programming language that has been. Alice is free software created by carnegie melon university and backed by stacks of research suggesting that it is an excellent first exposure to programming. Alice is an objectbased educational programming language with an integrated development environment ide. Zaydn loved it, and some of his favorite moments were all of the puns at hatters tea party with time, times robots, and time himself.
Alice pascal one of the first projects i did after forming looking glass software limited was a syntaxdirected programming environment called alice. Alice uses a drag and drop environment to create computer animations using 3d models. The methods panel the methods panel shows us actions or methods that. All alice virtual worlds begin with a scene of a ground. Program execution is no longer restricted to one local machine only. Sep 17, 2012 in through the lookingglass, carroll employs a different kind of wordplay from the puns of wonderland. The innovative programming environment teaches students to program with alice and java software as they have fun. The application has several tutorials that supports learning the programming language used in this tool. About alice who uses alice alice is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools and sometimes even younger to universities, in school classrooms and in after school and out of school programming, and in subjects ranging from visual arts and language arts to the fundamentals of programming and introduction to java courses. Looking glass is the successor to storytelling alice, one of the only programming environments to show increased motivation among girls. This is the final step required to move away from dual booting with other operating systems for legacy programs that require high performance graphics. Choose from 500 different sets of alice 3 programming flashcards on quizlet. Alice is an objectbased educational programming language with an integrated development. First of all, you dont have to remember special words or syntax.
Featured projects alice is an innovative blockbased programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3d. A looking glass written as a cgi script links broken. The interface v scene view the methods panel code editor panel. The alice website lists the following system requirements. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. Carroll was a mathematician, novelist, and photographer.
It is an open source program written in java that can be modified using aiml ai markup language. Create your own animated story, share your story on the web, remix to learn new skills, and learn to program. First of all, you dont have to remember special words or. Learning to program with alice what is alice programming.
You wont see alice on the lists of hot programming languages and youll rarely see it cited in job ads, but its hot in its own way. 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 pays homage to lewis carroll, author of alices adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass. April 10th, 2020 7am alice news network sarah and vinnie full show. The looking glass was the anchor in what was known as the world wide airborne command post wwabncp network. Alice teaches programming concepts as kids create animated movies with its friendly interface and storytelling. In through the lookingglass, carroll employs a different kind of wordplay from the puns of wonderland. Inspired by my research around storytelling alice, looking glass introduces basic programming within the context of creating openended animated stories.
Alice computer chip, a graphics engine chip in the amiga computer in 1992 alice programming language, a functional programming language designed by the. Adventures in alice programming duke university, durham nc. Server for hosting moodle software technology software. Looking glass is the successor to storytelling alice, one of the only programming environments. This network of specially equipped ec5 aircraft would launch from ground alert status and establish airtoair wireless network connections in the event of a u. Carrolls use of language in lookingglass methods of. It is designed to teach the student how to program a computer, but in a very different way from most other programming languages. Programming with alice online software certification courses. It is an easy and fun way to learn programming but it also develops real programming skills. Programming in alice you can add more scenery to set the mood, if you want. Alice software initialization alice software was developed using r software and wrapped as an executable file.
In fact, puns are looked down upon here, as evidenced by the fact that the only people who use them in lookingglass are the gnat, who is directly told by alice that puns are bad jokes 152, and the white queen 170, who is characterized throughout the book as being foolish. I was impressed at the prodigious creativity required to recast through the looking glass as an actionpacked video game that was beautiful to behold and fun to play. Looking glass is a geometric optics construction set that allows students to create and explore situations involving several objects, lenses, mirrors and images. Looking glass is developed by the looking glass team and research group at washington university in st. Alice is unique amongst such environments in several ways. The programs open and save info and data to various files in the installation directory. Most important, he could do intellectually difficult things but also realized the most powerful thing was to be able to communicate clearly and in an entertaining way. Looking glass is an open source application that allows the use of a kvm kernelbased virtual machine configured for vga pci passthrough without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse. The looking glass is the worlds leading holographic display. Alice is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools and sometimes even. One of the first projects i did after forming looking glass software limited was a syntaxdirected programming environment called alice. Alice is an innovative blockbased educational java programming. I have over 25 years of programming and teaching experience. Alice is a fantastic education tool for teaching programming to both the young and old.
Syntaxdirected editors are somewhat controversial, however i think they are quite good for people learning programming, and alice was written first to be used in education in. Dynamicity, to import and export software blocks in running programs. Storytelling alice uses the programming language, alice, which features a drag and drop environment to. It is as simple as selecting a word and dragging it to a list of actions to make the change to the character or scene. April 10th, 2020 8am alice celebrity trash sarah and vinnie full show. Powered by light field technology, the looking glass seamlessly delivers 3d content without any vrar headgear. This story makes no references to the previous book, nor does it provide an extension to events that happened in the previous book as is. Learn alice 3 programming with free interactive flashcards. Alice was first written in setl and released in 1995. A looking glass accesses a remote router and performs either a ping, trace, or one of several show commands allowing a view of the ip and bgp route tables.
It is a dialect of standard ml, augmented with support for lazy evaluation, concurrency multithreading and distributed computing via remote procedure calls and constraint programming. After the success of his first fantasy novel, alices adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll followed it up with a sequel of sorts in through the lookingglass and what alice found there. Alice through the looking glass 14 cecil court, wc2n 4he london, united kingdom rated 4. Syntaxdirected editors are somewhat controversial, however i think they are quite good for people learning programming, and alice was written first to be used in education.
Alicethe personal pascal or just alice is the first interpreted pascal to become available for the atari st. The culmination of both of this collaboration resulted in the release of both the software version alice 2 and the book learning to program with alice. Alice through the looking glass max planck institute for. Alice alices adventures in wonderland, a character in books by lewis carrollalice series, childrens and teen books by phyllis reynolds naylor.
This story makes no references to the previous book, nor does it provide an extension to events that happened in the previous book as is usually the case with sequels. Designed to teach fundamental concepts to novices, such as the relationship between programming statements and objects, alice is supported by textbooks, tutorials, lessons and tests. This issue is all about projects kids and anyone with time on their hands can work through to have fun and learn basic computer programming and computer science. The software was developed first at university of virginia in 1994, then carnegie mellon from 1997, by a research group led by randy pausch. Discovering computers 2016 shelly cashman series by misty e.
Looking glass is giving younger users experience in how to. A looking glass is a piece of software running on a web server that allows external users to get a look at routing and network behavior as it originates from the remote network. In this tutorial you will learn how to make bipeds walk on alice 3. One of the alice worlds was created in looking glass and will need to be downloaded from the alice website.
This will be gabbys sixth year working with the alice programming workshop for girls, and her second year as a. Looking glass is the successor to storytelling alice, one of the only programming environments to show. Alice hermann book, a 2009 short story collection by judith hermann. Alice has been implemented in the alice programming system 2, a full. Looking glass enables users to program 3d animated stories. Looking glass is a programming environment for ages 10 and up. Alice ml is a programming language designed by the programming systems laboratory at saarland university, saarbrucken, germany. I will talk more specifically about the alice programming language in a moment but first let me introduce myself. With looking glass, you can create and share animated stories, simple games, and even virtual pets. Thats because tomorrows software development depends on the attitudes of todays kids.
Along with an overview of the alice languages and an introduction to creating worlds, it includes extensive, indepth guides to alice programming features, including creating and manipulating objects, working with parameters, using methods, and more. However, it is only a matter of time before alice and software like it make their impact on the programming world. Looking glass will help students develop an intuition for the effect of lenses and mirrors on light rays. You won the game if alice was the last one standing. Humpty is a bit irritable, but he turns out to have some thoughtprovoking notions about language, and philosophers of. Looking glass factory the worlds leading holographic display. Looking glass factory the worlds leading holographic. The output of alice programs are 3 dimensional movies. This software takes an interactive, visual approach to physics. You can add more scenery to set the mood, if you want.
It allows groups of people to view, create, and share holographic content together. About three dozen educators from high schools, colleges and universities around the country and abroad attended a twoday workshop to learn how to use the beta version of alice 3. Looking glass says they are working on a library of procedures to do these. The procedure of initiating alice is listed as follows.
Alice is an innovative 3d programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story or playing an interactive game or even a video to share on the internet. Programming with alice alice is a programming language that allows the user to create 3danimations. Alice active learning interface for circuits and electronics is a open source suite of python applications, which provides a user interface for visualizing and manipulating signals while exploring circuits and electronics systems attached to the affordable analog devices adalm the use of python affords a crossplatform windows, linux, os x set of accessible tools for initial. If youre looking for a tool to use in the classroom, this isnt it. Hello and welcome to virtual training companys programming in alice tutorial. In the years since storytelling alice, weve been exploring how to enable and maximize learning from programs that others create. Programming with alice mike scott, lecturer, computer science department. Syntaxdirected editors are somewhat controversial, however i think they are quite good for people learning programming, and alice was written first to be used in education in the school systems of ontario.
In chapter 6 of through the looking glass, alice meets humpty dumpty, who she recognizes immediately since she knows about him from the nursery rhyme. Free webcast delivers alice knowledge to educators oracle blogs. Alice 1 artificial linguistic computer entity a chatbot designed by dr. Normally, when a program receives a message from gem that you want to move a window or slider, or redraw a window, the application must go into a loop and perform all of these housekeeping functions. Contribute to ecixalice lg development by creating an account on github. All goldfish are below surface of water, but still part of.
Artificial linguistic internet computer entity, an opensource chatterbot. Alice was also addicting, although it took some practice to be able to survive for more than a few minutes. Programming with alice university of texas at austin. Kelleher developed a programming system called storytelling alice. Life lessons we can learn from alice through the looking. Dodson and the developers of alice both had a common belief. The aes support is unusual in how much alice does for you. This activity uses looking glass, a programming environment for ages 10 and up. It can execute almost all bgprelated commands and do ping and traceroute in routers or relay these queries to other looking glasses. Chapter 1 alice through the looking glass andreas rossberg1 didier le botlan1 guido tack1 thorsten brunklaus1 gert smolka1 abstract.
Guys if you like this video please share it and show it to your friends. Caitlin is the creator of the program storytelling alice. Storytelling alice was succeeded by the interactive storytelling application looking glass, developed at washington university in st. Humpty is a bit irritable, but he turns out to have some thoughtprovoking notions about language, and philosophers of language have been quoting him ever since. Alice software, an objectoriented programming language and ide developed at carnegie mellon. Alice through the looking glass andreas rossberg1 didier le botlan1 guido tack1 thorsten brunklaus1 gert smolka1. Because of user permission issues with some installations of windows you may need to install the software in a directory other than the default program files. This lesson plan introduces students to both alice and looking glass, and gives a basic introduction to computer science.