1. Alice 3 Using the Alice 3.1 Interactive Development Environment (IDE)

2. Starting Alice 3.1 Click the Alice 3.1 icon on your desktop.
Note to teachers: Modify for your own local network or individual computers.

3. Select a template for a scene
When Alice 3 starts,
Select a template for a scene 3 3

4. Scene view
Code editor 4 4
Methods panel
Control tiles

5. Code Editor ↔ Scene Editor
To toggle between
Code Editor ↔ Scene Editor 5 5

6. Galleries Pre-built 3D Models
Single-click – similar to clicking a link on a webpage 6 6

7. Gallery organization
A gallery contains class folders for different types of 3D models
Each folder contains classes of that type 7

8. Setting up a scene
Demo 8 8

9. Common operations Operations used to set up a scene Recommendation:
Create new objects
Position objects relative to other objects & the camera
Move the camera
Mark camera positions
Recommendation:
Mark the original position of the camera

10. Create a camera marker Name the marker
Original camera Point Of View (POV)

11. Camera Navigation Controls
Move Camera
Up/Down/Left/Right
Forward/Back
Turn Camera
Left/Right
Forward/Backward

12. To return to original position
Click (in this order):
cameraMarker_Red
Set POV button

13. Create New Instance (Object)
Click on thumbnail sketch for the class
In dialog box, enter a name for the new instance (object)
all one word
use lowercase
or camelCase 13 13

14. Object Tree
When an instance of any gallery class is created, Alice automatically adds the name of the object to the Object Tree in the Scene Editor.

15. Mouse and Keyboard controls
Use mouse to drag object
left ↔ right or forward ↔ backward
Hold shift key and drag for up ↔down
Hold ctrl key (option key, Mac)
for rotation
Shift-drag to raise an object vertically
Control-drag (option-drag on the Mac) to rotate an object (same as using the torus) 15 15

16. Handles
Mouse handles can be selected to modify the action of the mouse for positioning and resizing objects. 16 16

17. Handle: One Ring
A single ring (torus) can be used to spin the object around.

18. Handles: Three Rings Rotation (turn & roll)
Copyright Wanda Dann, Don Slater, Steve Cooper

19. Handles: Three arrows
Movement (up-down, left-right, forward- backward)

20. Handles: Resize
One arrow for resizing in all directions, proportionately.

21. Relative Positioning
Use camera views to one object relative to another object.

22. To save a project For first save, in menu bar, use File/Save As
Default location: MyProjects folder
Can navigate to another save location
In GHC lab cluster, do not just save to desktop. When you log out, the file will be erased.
File will automatically have a filename extension .a3p (Alice 3 Project) 22 22