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Sigcse Tea Party 2007
1. Dennis Cosgrove Caitlin Kelleher Randy Pausch Madeleine Pitsch Don Slater Gabe Yu Carnegie Mellon University Wanda Dann – Ithaca College Steve Cooper - St. Joseph’s University The Alice Tea Party This talk was presented at ACM SIGCSE 2007, March 9, 2007 in Cincinnati www.alice.org www.aliceprogramming.net For more information…
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9. Bureau of Labor: Hecker, D. Occupational employment projections to 2014. Monthly Labor Review. November 2005.
10. Something drastic needs to be done. Alice is our focus, but we’re happy to hear about other ideas. But do SOMETHING!
41. Alice helps at-risk CS majors 88% B Alice Class Prior to CS1 47% C No Alice Class Prior to CS1 Take CS2? CS1 Grade Declared CS majors at Ithaca College and St. Joseph’s University
42. Alice helps at-risk CS majors M. Moskal, D. Lurie, and S. Cooper, Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Instructional Approach. In Proceedings of 2004 SIGCSE Conference , (Norfolk, VA). 88% B Alice Class Prior to CS1 47% C No Alice Class Prior to CS1 Take CS2? CS1 Grade Declared CS majors at Ithaca College and St. Joseph’s University
54. Live Demo of Storytelling Alice Caitlin Kelleher
55. People are more important than objects students very rarely animate things . In Storytelling Alice, humanoids and other non-bipedal characters are a different type and have different methods than non-living “things”. Caitlin Kelleher
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57. Character actions often motivate use of programming constructs like loops, methods and parameters Caitlin Kelleher
58. “ touch” and “keep touching” enable creation of generalizable motions
59. Evaluation with Girls Scouts But we believe the approach works for both genders and all ages. Formative: ~250 users Summative: 88 users Caitlin Kelleher
60. Three Activities in Alice 1: Scene Layout 2: Editing Programs 3: Running Programs Caitlin Kelleher
63. Users of the storytelling version show more evidence of engagement/motivation p < 0.001 Caitlin Kelleher 16% Regular Alice 51% Story-Alice % of girls who sneak extra time to work on their Alice worlds
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65. Production values as good as real video games??? This is what I couldn’t tell you about at last year’s Tea Party…
71. The First Public Demo of Alice v3.0 with the Sims TM ! This scene was rendered in Alice v3.0
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75. Thanks to our Sponsors Alice is a well supported project, and isn’t going away…
76. Dennis Cosgrove Caitlin Kelleher Randy Pausch Madeleine Pitsch Don Slater Gabe Yu Carnegie Mellon University Wanda Dann – Ithaca College Steve Cooper - St. Joseph’s University Questions? www.alice.org www.aliceprogramming.net