Alice An introduction to programming

History  First created as a project by a student group  Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh  Free to anyone who wants it  Up to version 3  Based on Object oriented programming principles and terminology

Dr. Randy Pausch  Creator of Alice  The Last Lecture  Carnegie Mellon

Alice environment  Object tree  Details of current object  Program writing window  Picture of world with objects In it  Event window

Control structures  Control structures in Alice are at the bottom of the screen  Drag and drop into the program  Can be nested inside each other  Two kinds of repetitions  Module = subprogram = method