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Learning to Program with Alice

The goal of our innovative approach is to allow traditional programming concepts to be more easily taught and more readily understood.

By Isaac Gouy at 2005-08-29 22:08 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 8600 reads

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We are trying it

Our first year CS course at McMaster University will be taught using that starting in about a week's time. So in about 3 months I'll be back to report on it.

We were hoping to find a highly interactive, visual environment to teach problem solving to the students, where they would learn how to program as a side-effect. Alice satisfies all these requirements except for the fact that it uses too many Java concepts instead of being more paradigm (and syntax!) neutral. But it was deemed to be close enough to our requirements to give it a try.

By Jacques Carette at Tue, 2005-08-30 02:39 | login or register to post comments

syntax neutral

syntax neutral

By andrew cooke at Wed, 2005-08-31 00:31 | login or register to post comments