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Learning to Program with Alice

by Wanda Dann - Ithaca College; Stephen Cooper - Saint Joseph’s University; Randy Pausch - Carnegie Mellon University

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Copyright, iv
Foreword, ix
Preface, xi
I. Introduction to Alice, 1
1. Getting Started with Alice, 3
1-1. Introduction to Alice, 3
1-2. Alice Concepts, 7
Tips & Techniques 1: Special Effects: Text and 2D Graphic Images, 13
Exercises, 16
Summary, 18
2. Program Design and Implementation, 19
2-1. Scenarios and Storyboards, 19
2-2. A First Program, 26
Tips & Techniques 2: Orientation and Movement Instructions, 38
Exercises, 47
Summary, 49
3. Programming: Putting Together the Pieces, 51
3-1. Built-in Functions and Expressions, 52
3-2. Simple Control Structures, 56
Tips & Techniques 3: Engineering Look and Feel, 64
Exercises, 68
Summary, 70
II. Object-Oriented and Event-Driven Programming Concepts, 71
4. Classes, Objects, Methods, and Parameters, 73
4-1. World-level Methods, 75
4-2. Parameters, 83
4-3. Class-level Methods and Inheritance, 93
Tips & Techniques 4: Visible and Invisible Objects, 104
Exercises and Projects, 109
Summary, 118
5. Interaction: Events and Event Handling, 120
5-1. Interactive Programming, 120
5-2. Parameters and Event Handling Methods, 125
Tips & Techniques 5: Events, 134
Exercises and Projects, 135
Summary, 143
III. Using Functions and Control Statements, 145
6. Functions and If/Else, 147
6-1. Functions, 147
6-2. Execution control with If/Else and Boolean Functions, 154
Tips & Techniques 6: Random Numbers and Random Motion, 167
Exercises and Projects, 171
Summary, 181
7. Repetition: Definite and Indefinite Loops, 183
7-1. Loops, 183
7-2. While—a conditional loop, 189
Tips & Techniques 7: Events and Repetition, 194
Exercises and Projects, 196
Summary, 203
8. Repetition: Recursion, 205
8-1. Introduction to Recursion, 205
8-2. Another Flavor of Recursion, 210
Tips & Techniques 8: Camera and Animation Controls, 220
Exercises and Projects, 224
Summary, 228
IV. Advanced Topics, 230
9. Lists and List Processing, 233
9-1. Lists, 233
9-2. List Search, 239
Tips & Techniques 9: Poses, 243
Exercises and Projects, 244
Summary, 249
10. Variables and Revisiting Inheritance, 250
10-1. Variables, 250
10-2. An Array Visualization Using an Index Variable, 261
Tips & Techniques 10: Debugging with Watch and Text Output, 269
Exercises and Projects, 272
Summary, 277
11. What’s Next?, 278
Fundamental concepts, 278
A major change, 279
Syntax, 279
Syntax switch, 280
Syntax details, 281
Appendix, 283
A. Using Alice, 283
Part 1: Running virtual worlds in alice, 283
World 1: A first animation, 284
World 2, 286
Summary, 286
World 3: Creating and saving your own new world, 287
Saving a world, 287
Adding objects to the world, 289
Using the web gallery (optional), 291
Mouse controls in the scene editor, 291
Moving subparts of objects, 292
Experiment with the copy and delete:, 292
Using quad view, 293
Using ctrl and shift keys with mouse-object movement, 296
Moving the camera, 296
Arranging many objects in an initial scene, 296
Summary, 296
Part 2: Using popup menus to create an initial scene, 297
Using methods with object subparts, 300
Get a good look at this object, 301
A comparison of motion controls, 302
B. Managing the Alice interface, 302
Searching the gallery, 302
Creating your own people models, 303
Copy and paste: clipboards, 304
Deleting code, 306
Printing: Exporting program code to an HTML file, 306
Web display: Exporting a world, 308
Export to movie, 309
3D Animation and Special Effects with Alice, FrontCover
How to ..., InsideBackCover
Index, I-1-1

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