Alice 3 in Action: Computing Through Animation / Edition 1

by Joel Adams

Overview

This six-chapter supplementary text uses Alice, a three-dimensional virtual reality authoring system, to make programming easy and fun for the beginning student.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901133589227
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	02/20/2014
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joel Adams, a Professor of Computer Science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has taught undergraduate computer science since 1984. He spends each July directing the Imaginary Worlds Camp, an animation camp for middle and high school students. Professor Adams is an ACM Distinguished Educator and a two-time Fulbright Scholar; he spent the Fall 2005 semester at Carnegie Mellon as a member of the Alice team.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Alice. 2. Methods. 3. Variables and Expressions. 4. Flow Control. 5. Arrays. 6. Events Appendix A. Alice Standard Methods and Functions. Appendix B. Recursion. Appendix C. NetBeans.