Programming in Alice

3460:289:421, 422 Course Information

• Prerequisite: None
• Objectives
• To learn basic programming paradigms
• To develop object-oriented solutions to programming problems
• To design animated worlds using event-driven programming
• Required Text
• Learning to Program With Alice, Dann, Cooper, and Pausch, Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN: 0-13-187289-3
• This is also available as an eText from Safari with this ISBN: 0-13-187721-6
• Grading Policies

Your grade will be based on a series of quizzes (50%) and projects (50%).

Quizzes must be taken at the announced time in class. Hopefully you will all meet the deadlines for projects. However, if you find it necessary to submit a project assignment late, your grade will be reduced by 10% each day.

All project assignments must be your own work unless specified otherwise. Devising your own solutions to problems and implementing them is the best way to learn about the topics in this course.

If you need help with your programs, please see me. Duplicate or similar programs/projects, plagiarism, cheating, undue collaboration, or other forms of academic dishonesty may be reported to the Student Disciplinary Office.

• Grading scale:
• A   90-100    B   80- 89    C   70- 79    D   60- 69    F    0- 59
• (+/- grades awarded at my discretion)
• Final Exam: None
• Last day to drop this class:

Course Topics

• An introduction to the Alice programming environment
• Designing programs, storyboarding, basic Alice commands
• Using functions and expressions; basic control structures
• Object-oriented topics: classes, objects, methods, parameters
• Event-driven programing, event handlers
• Decision structures
• Repetition structures
• Lists and list processing