Sigcse Tea Party 2007

Dennis Cosgrove Caitlin Kelleher Randy Pausch Madeleine Pitsch Don Slater Gabe Yu Carnegie Mellon University Wanda Dann – Ithaca College Steve Cooper - St. Joseph’s University The Alice Tea Party This talk was presented at ACM SIGCSE 2007, March 9, 2007 in Cincinnati www.alice.org www.aliceprogramming.net For more information…

Thanks to Prentice Hall ,[object Object]

Our Tea Party Agenda ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Shrinking CS Pool ,[object Object],Total Median Per Dept.

Bureau of Labor: Hecker, D. Occupational employment projections to 2014. Monthly Labor Review. November 2005.

Something drastic needs to be done. Alice is our focus, but we’re happy to hear about other ideas. But do SOMETHING!

The Alice System (www.alice.org) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Demo of Alice v2.0 ,[object Object]

Alice has always been free. Alice will always continue to be free.

Pedagogically: Why Alice Works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Objects are suddenly “obvious” ,[object Object]

Support & Help: Online Forums at www.alice.org

Support & Help: In-system Tutorials

Instructional Materials ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Steve Cooper

www.aliceprogramming.net ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Steve Cooper

Sample Lesson: Rolling a ball ,[object Object],[object Object],realisticRoll Do together move ball forward 1 meter, as seen by the ground turn ball forward ? revolutions Design Wanda Dann

Number of revolutions ,[object Object],Wanda Dann one revolution four revolutions

A function ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Wanda Dann

Coding the function Two values are needed. Wanda Dann

How Alice is being used ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Wanda Dann

Summer 2007 Workshops ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Don Slater

Textbook Developed over 5 year period in conjunction with the software.

Textbook Developed over 5 year period in conjunction with the software. Goal: 5,000 copies in first year Printed To Date: 23,0000 copies

Brief Edition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Other texts based on Alice are appearing

To those who object… ,[object Object]

A lot of colleges are using Alice ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],* http:// www.utexas.edu/world/univ / says 3,176

Last 12 months, at www.alice.org ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Alice helps at-risk CS majors 88% B Alice Class Prior to CS1 47% C No Alice Class Prior to CS1 Take CS2? CS1 Grade Declared CS majors at Ithaca College and St. Joseph’s University

Alice helps at-risk CS majors M. Moskal, D. Lurie, and S. Cooper, Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Instructional Approach. In Proceedings of 2004 SIGCSE Conference , (Norfolk, VA). 88% B Alice Class Prior to CS1 47% C No Alice Class Prior to CS1 Take CS2? CS1 Grade Declared CS majors at Ithaca College and St. Joseph’s University

Other Things I’ve Heard Called “Toys” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Toy vs. “Real” Programming, which is…

[object Object],Alice is “real coding”

Frame the debate: what are we going to be doing in our department? ,[object Object],Total Median Per Dept.

We’re never done… Alice is a research project ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Storytelling Alice Caitlin Kelleher

No matter how easy something is, people still need a reason to want to do it. Caitlin Kelleher

Approach Present programming as a means to the end of storytelling. Caitlin Kelleher

Changes to Alice ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Hero or Villain Authority Figure Caitlin Kelleher

Live Demo of Storytelling Alice Caitlin Kelleher

People are more important than objects students very rarely animate things . In Storytelling Alice, humanoids and other non-bipedal characters are a different type and have different methods than non-living “things”. Caitlin Kelleher

What people can do… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Caitlin Kelleher

Character actions often motivate use of programming constructs like loops, methods and parameters Caitlin Kelleher

“ touch” and “keep touching” enable creation of generalizable motions

Evaluation with Girls Scouts But we believe the approach works for both genders and all ages. Formative: ~250 users Summative: 88 users Caitlin Kelleher

Three Activities in Alice 1: Scene Layout 2: Editing Programs 3: Running Programs Caitlin Kelleher

Users of Storytelling Alice spend 42% more time programming p < 0.001 p< 0.001

Storytelling Alice motivates the reluctant programmers

Users of the storytelling version show more evidence of engagement/motivation p < 0.001 Caitlin Kelleher 16% Regular Alice 51% Story-Alice % of girls who sneak extra time to work on their Alice worlds

The Future: Alice v3.0 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Production values as good as real video games??? This is what I couldn’t tell you about at last year’s Tea Party…

Best Selling PC Games of all time: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Electronic Arts (EA) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],*From the EA foundation

Best Selling PC Games of all time: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],And the Sims has more female than male players!

The First Public Demo of Alice v3.0 with the Sims TM ! This scene was rendered in Alice v3.0

Setting expectations… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Many (fun!) challenges ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thanks to our Sponsors Alice is a well supported project, and isn’t going away…

Dennis Cosgrove Caitlin Kelleher Randy Pausch Madeleine Pitsch Don Slater Gabe Yu Carnegie Mellon University Wanda Dann – Ithaca College Steve Cooper - St. Joseph’s University Questions? www.alice.org www.aliceprogramming.net

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