Alice Adventures in ComputingLand: A review

K. Al-Tahat
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Computer programming is often presented to students as an abstract discipline that looks aseptic and ultimately boring to many learners; learners find their first computing course uninspiring and programming hard and socially isolating. This causes a decline in the interest in computing among learners. Although there have been many attempts to make computing appealing, more interesting, easier and enjoyable, many educators are still using the classic methods in teaching and learning computer programming. The aim of this work is to call the attention of computing educators to an approach that uses 3D virtual environments to teaching programming. We introduce this approach through a tool that offers innovative methods for teaching wide spectrum of computing topics; Alice. Alice is an innovative programming environment that can be used to create stories by animating characters in a 3D world. Alice is written in Java and has an object-oriented flavor. The paper presents a review of research on using Alice in motivating teaching programming and problem solving, algorithmic thinking, software modeling, and game design and implementation. New trends of using Alice in teaching computing are also suggested.
Alice Adventures in ComputingLand:一篇评论
计算机编程通常作为一门抽象的学科呈现给学生,看起来无菌,最终对许多学习者来说很无聊;学习者发现他们的第一堂计算机课程毫无启发性,编程很难,与社会隔绝。这导致学习者对计算机的兴趣下降。尽管已经有许多尝试使计算更吸引人、更有趣、更容易和更愉快,但许多教育者仍然在使用经典的方法来教授和学习计算机编程。这项工作的目的是引起计算机教育工作者的注意,使用3D虚拟环境来教授编程。我们通过一种工具来介绍这种方法,该工具为广泛的计算主题教学提供了创新的方法;爱丽丝。Alice是一个创新的编程环境,可以通过在3D世界中动画角色来创建故事。Alice是用Java编写的,具有面向对象的风格。本文介绍了在激励教学编程和问题解决、算法思维、软件建模以及游戏设计和实现中使用Alice的研究综述。提出了在计算机教学中应用Alice的新趋势。
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