Curricular materials for

Learning to Program with Alice

These materials have been developed with support from NSF-0126833, NSF-0302542, NSF-0339734, and NSF-1031351.

Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
 

Instructor's materials to accompany the text

In this section, we provide lots of materials for use by instructors. Most of these materials are password-protected. Use of the password-protected materials is subject to the following terms and conditions:

1. You can make available the material to your TAs/graders
2. You can make available portions of the material to the students in your course on hardcopy handouts or on Web pages that are either password-protected or accessible only from your university domain
3. You are not allowed to make the material or its solutions available on a publicly accessible Web site.
4. Use of the materials from this website in publications or other commercial endeavors is not permitted and will be considered a violation of copyright.

Please see the specific course calendars below for specific pacing suggestions.

• Organization
  The material is organized by chapter. For flexibility in dealing with time constraints and computer lab access, lecture notes for Chapters 1 and 2 are organized as either one complete session or two short sessions. In most cases, the slide sessions correspond to a chapter section.

• Usage
  The presentations have been prepared for use in a variety of courses. We hope the slides will provide a helpful resource. Instructors will need to adapt the materials for the specific needs of a particular course. You have permission to use and adapt these slides for non-commercial purposes.

• Format
  The files for each chapter are zipped for fast download. Each file contains lecture notes, the virtual worlds associated with the lecture notes, and sample lab sheets.
  

  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Appendix (contains tutorial worlds)
  
  

Sample Course Syllabi

• For use in a 3-week (or possibly 4-week) computer literacy course, or as the first 3 weeks of a CS1 course -- presented in an objects-first approach.
• For use in a 3-week (or possibly 4-week) computer literacy course, or as the first 3 weeks of a CS1 course -- presented in an objects-early approach.
• For use in a 7-week short course, presented as objects-first.
• For use in a 7-week short course, presented as objects-first, with recursion early.
• For use in a 7-week short course, presented as objects-early.
• For use in a 14-week course presented in an objects-first approach
• For use in a 14-week course presented in an objects-early approach
• For use in a year-long high school course

Other Curricular Materials

• Susan Rodger maintains a collection of Alice tutorials, videos, and example worlds here.
• Tom Stokke maintains a list of Alice video tutorials here.

Links to syllabi from other schools

Exams

• Sample exams and test bank questions

Projects

• Examples of Open Ended Project Assignments
• Some sample student-built virtual worlds

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