Alice v3.0 is a Hit With Students in Alpha Test
The Alice Project, which was started by Randy Pausch, is a few weeks into its alpha test of the 3.0 version of the Alice system. This is the version that will incorporate the technology of The Sims, essentially enabling students to build Sims-inhabited interactive virtual worlds while learning Java programming. There are special “Alice sections” of the intro CS course being offered here and a handful of other places — about 140 students total — using the alpha-test system.
The alpha test seems to be going really well. One of the students, Jessica Goodman, writes in her blog, “15-100 Rocks Because of Alice“.
Tomorrow, I’m planning to play with the 3.0 software myself. (I’ve only used the 2.0 version thus far.) I’ll let you know how it goes. The project reports that it is on track to begin the beta test in January, 2009, with about 25-30 universities and high schools.
Peter Lee @ October 22, 2008
[…] will be teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to support the development and deployment of Alice v3. The partnership makes perfect sense for both Sun and CMU. For Sun, the Alice system is a fantastic […]
Hi there, I would love to give this to my little brother - he used to write programmes to get off the shelf robots to talk to each other when he was nine…..now he’s 13, he’s got stuck on an xbox. I’d like to see him doing something creative again. Is there any chance?
i was one of the ones who saw Randy’s lecture and learned of Alice.