Alice+Programming+Home+Page

== =Getting Started with Alice 3_1 Home Page= =What is Alice?= Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a free tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects. In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

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The goal of these documents is to provide information and instructions for downloading, installing, and starting to use Alice 3.1. Alice (all versions) is free and available for download at [|www.alice.org]


 * ** Set up **
 * [|Download and Installation]
 * [|Setting Preferences in Alice 3.1]


 * ** A tour of the Alice 3.1 interface **
 * [|A brief tour of the Alice 3.1 IDE]
 * [|A brief tour of the Alice 3.1 Menu Bar]
 * [|A brief tour of the Alice 3.1 Gallery]
 * [|Alice 3.1 Built-in Methods]


 * ** Alice and Java **
 * [|Java Download and Installation]
 * [|Netbeans Download and Installation]
 * [|Download and Install the Alice Plugin for Netbeans]