Animation and Programming with Alice Level 2 - Camp Week Format - (Age 9-14)

This is the second week of the popular camp format for Animation and Programming with Alice. Students will learn how to create and place characters in a 3D world, and then create digital stories using text-based dialog and animation.  We will be using Alice 3.0, which combines object-based coding with text-based Java coding in Netbeans.  Alice is a free program made available by Carnegie Mellon and is used widely in elementary through college-age computer, visual arts, and other core classes. Students need to have general computer skills, but no previous animation or coding experience is required.  

Students will be introduced to projects that I will demonstrate step-by-step sharing my screen and students can use the video to follow along on their own computers.  (Teacher will also be available throughout the week for help and questions on projects outside of class.) The lessons will be recorded, so if you can't make all 5 days, your learner can watch the recording and catch up.

The second class of Alice builds on what was learned in the first class, with more emphasis on creating methods and procedures, learning about classes and how to edit and apply characteristics of objects and their classes.  There will be lots of dogs, penguins, chickens and an elaborate Hokey Pokey routine, among other things!  Students can have fun and individualize their projects as well.

Parents or students will need to download and install Alice 3.0 on their computer prior to the first week (teacher will be available for any technical support needed!)  Download it from: http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3/.  Alice 3.0 will run on Windows (32- or 64-bit systems), Mac OS, or Linux. There is a NetBeans add-on that works with Alice 3.0 which we will be using with this course.