Alice Project

The Alice Project
http://www.alice.org/
Dr. Wanda Dann, an active member of the Alice team for the last decade, has recently assumed leadership of the team. She is currently transitioning into a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University from Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ithaca College. Wanda's research interests include visualization in programming and programming languages and innovative approaches to introductory programming.

With Dr. Steve Cooper and Dr. Randy Pausch, she has published papers on the use of program visualization in teaching and learning introductory programming. Papers have appeared in ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) inroads, the Computer Science Education Journal, and other related publications. She is co-author of Learning to Program with Alice (2006, Prentice-Hall).

All about Alice...Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.Read more...

Teaching Materials...Alice is a teaching tool designed as a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning introductory programming concepts. The Alice team has developed instructional materials to support students and teachers in using this new approach. Resources include textbooks, lessons, sample syllabuses, test banks, and more. Other authors have generously joined our efforts, creating additional textbooks. Read more...

Downloads: 

• Alice 2.0 ( Designed for High School and College)

• Storytelling Alice ( Designed for Middle School)

• 3D Models Gallery ( Additional free 3D models)

Alice is made freely available as a public service. Alice v2.0 © 1999-2008, Carnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved.  We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of Electronic Arts, DARPA, Intel, Microsoft, NSF, and ONR.