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Introduction to Alice

Introduction to Alice. CS 110 - Honors. Slides courtesy of Wanda Dann, Ithaca College. Overview. Why Alice? Getting Started with Alice Programming Using the Alice interface Running an Animation Program Main Goal:

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Introduction to Alice

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  1. Introduction to Alice CS 110 - Honors Slides courtesy of Wanda Dann, Ithaca College

  2. Overview • Why Alice? • Getting Started with Alice Programming • Using the Alice interface • Running an Animation Program • Main Goal: • to have you set up and run Alice so you can work with examples and lab exercises

  3. Why Alice? • A modern programming tool • 3-D graphics • 3-D models of objects • Animation • 3-D models can be made to move around the virtual world • Free • www.alice.org

  4. The Power of Alice • Automatically keeps track of 3-D objects • what objects are in the virtual world • types of object • where they are currently located • Automatically manages memory • dynamically allocates memory • reclaims memory when a world is closed or an object is destroyed

  5. Built-ins • To animate the 3-D objects, Alice has many standard operations • Examples: • move • turn • roll • resize • setcolor

  6. Libraries • You can import program code from available resources • Libraries provide additional operations for working with • numbers (math computations) • strings (characters, text)

  7. Quick to Learn and Use • Can learn to use • interface in a couple of lab sessions • Can learn to create • a simple animation in a matter of minutes • a non-trivial animation in a few lab sessions

  8. Demo • How to use the Alice interface • interactive command line • menu selections • smart editor • How to run an Alice program for animating a 3-D object

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