Recommended for Teens: Alice Programming Video Tutorial
What is Alice Video Tutorial?Alice video tutorials is produced with the aim of helping students to visually learn the process of programming with alice. They learn the basic of Object Oriented Programming at the fastest possible time. Our video tutorial is in High Quality and with Caption, and is supported with Examples from the video tutorial, which makes learning alice easy, step by step and as fast as 24 minutes!VISIT:http://www.aliceprogrammingvideotutorial.com/Alice is not a toy BUT A serious 3D graphics programming environmentAlice is not a toy designed solely to create pretty pictures. Rather, Alice is a full-featured programming language designed for use in teaching programming to beginners on the basis of programming principles that are well recognized within the computer science community.
Alice is a 3d graphics programming environment intended to be a gentle first introduction to students ranging from 6th grade to college, typically students who would not take (or pass!) a programming course.Elimination of frustrationThe Alice project was motivated by the fact that for most first-time students, the experience of learning to program has been filled with frustration. Hours of trying to understand syntax errors in pursuit of a working Fibonacci sequence generation program have lead many students to conclude that Computer Science is uninteresting before they have completed a single course.The goal of AliceThe goal of the Alice project is to change the first experience students have with computer programming. We believe that Alice will change the experience of learning to program in two main ways: removing unnecessary frustration and providing an environment in which beginning students, of both genders, can create programs they find compelling. Drag-and-drop instead of type When students create programs in Alice, they do not type. Instead, they drag and drop words representing commands that objects in the 3D scene understand. Alice is full featuredIn addition to straight-forward commands, students can also drag traditional programming constructs, such as "if," "loop N times," "do while something is true," etc. Students can construct "If" statements by dragging questions like "is the carrot near the rabbit" or "how tall is the tree" into them. Although the terminology is intentionally simplistic, Alice is actually a complete programming environment, supporting arrays, lists, functions with parameters, recursion, and an object-based data model. In addition, methods can be stored as part of an object and then loaded into different 3d "worlds" created with Alice. Alice provides a rudimentary system for writing event-driven programs, making it suitable for writing games and instructional programs for younger children. Why does Alice succeed?Alice succeeds for several fundamental reasons By removing typing and the ability to make a syntax error, Alice removes much of the initial frustration for new programmers, The ideas of data and objects are very concrete when students can *see* what they are, and Almost all changes to the program state are visible and animated, so debugging is a much less obscure task it is much easier to realize that "the rabbit moved backwards when I meant to for it to move forward" than to realize that "I subtracted one from the integer 'x' when I intended to add one" (particularly when 'x' isn't directly visible on the screen). Alice 2.0 is free and practicalThe Alice 2.0 programming environment can be downloaded free of charge from Carnegie Mellon University. Furthermore, it doesn't require a Windows installation. All that is required to run Alice is to:Download the zip file containing the Alice environment.Extract the files and directories from the zip file into a local directory.Double-click on one of the exe files that are extracted from the zip file.Once the zip file is downloaded, further access to the Internet is not required. Many classes for creating 3D objects are stored locally in an area that is called the gallery. However, in order to conserve local disk space, the classes for many other objects are not routinely included in the local class library. Rather, they can be accessed from a web version of the class gallery. Fits on a 256 mbyte USB flash driveThe entire local version of the Alice development environment will fit on a 256 mbyte USB flash drive, and can be executed directly from the flash drive. This makes it possible for students to carry the development kit with them from one computer to another. Improved accessibilityThe use of the drag-and-drop programming paradigm causes Alice to be much more accessible to beginning programming students than languages such as Java, C++, and C# that require extensive keyboard activity for use. A student who can type a few strings with one finger and operate a finger-driven mouse pad can write Alice programs just as rapidly and effectively as a student who can type 60 wpm.Instant Easy Download!VISIT:http://www.aliceprogrammingvideotutorial.com/
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How to Create Christmas Flash Greeting eCard without Programming Skills
Christmas is coming. Want to wow your friends and family? DIY Christmas Flash greeting eCards for them! Let people know that you care and have not forgotten them, especially during the most festive and important time of the year.
Via PowerPoint & PowerPoint to eCard converter you could DIY an amazing Christmas Flash greeting eCard in minutes. You don’t have to spend a small fortune or learn complex programming skills. It is an effective and affordable way to strengthen and maintain ties between distant family members and friends.
Now, let's view how to create Flash greeting eCard with the steps below.Step 1 - Download and install PPT to eCard software on your computer.
Step 2 - Create presentation with pictures, music, videos, and animations in PowerPointInsert pictures: Insert -> Picture Insert videos and music: Insert -> Movie/SoundInsert Flash: tutorial for how to embed Flash in PowerPoint.
Step 3 - Convert PowerPoint slideshow to Flash eCard with PPT to eCard
By simply click the Publish button in PPT to eCard, you could quickly get Flash eCard created from PowerPoint.
Step 4 - Upload and Send Your Personalized eCard by Email
After you get your Christmas Flash eCard from PowerPoint, you have several options to share it with others.
1. Make a home for your eCard. If you already have private Web space, that's the best house for hosting. If not, search for some professional online storage services such as Box.net. And then upload the eCard to it, copy the URL of the uploaded file and send it to others.
2. Attach the Flash eCard directly to Email and send it to others.
3. If you'd like to embed your eCard into Web pages, you just need to set up some simple HTML codes to place your personalized eCard into any Web pages. View this tutorial: (http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp).
Tips:Actually, Wondershare PPT to eCard can host your personalized eCard by uploading Flash eCard files to its server, and generated the link and HTML codes you need automatically. You may simply copy the link or codes to send and share your best wishes.
This Christmas, I promise that your personalized eCard from PowerPoint will be a nice greeting and surprise to your friends and families.
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Any good low-cost resources for learning Flash programming, design, and animation?
Simply put, I've got a copy of Flash MX Pro 2004, and I'd like to find some free or low-cost tutorials. Failing that, what books or videos are the best choices?
I know there are books in the library and free tutorials on the web... I'm hoping someone can recommend which ones are best. Guess I should have been more specific. 
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