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| A Preview of Alice 3.0, Introductory Programming in 3D |
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Google Tech Talks
December, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
The mission of the Alice project is to
increase and sustain the pipeline of computer
science graduates, essential to the growth of
technology in a global economy.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming
environment for building animations in the
form of stories, games, and web-ready videos.
Alice teaches programming. Alice version 2.0
is in common use. Alice 3.0 is in active
development with a projected launch date of
August 2009.
Alice 2.0 has been very successful and
enjoyed an adoption rate of 10% in US
colleges and is expanding rapidly into high
schools. We expect Alice 3.0 to surpass this
mark considerably.
Alice is a freely available teaching 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, 3D
objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles)
populate a virtual world and students create
a program to animate these objects.
Alice 3.0 will also enable teachers and
students to work directly with underlying
Java code in a Java IDE. The ability to work
with code in either drag-and-drop or in Java
IDE mode will support an expansion of Alice
2.0's target populations (previously, high
school and pre-CS1) to include CS1 and AP-CS
courses. Alice 3.0 is scheduled for alpha and
beta testing in a limited number of
classrooms during the '08-'09 academic year.
http://www.alice.org/
Speaker: Wanda Dann, Alice Director (Carnegie
Mellon University)
Dr. Wanda Dann, an active member of the Alice
team for the last decade, has recently
assumed leadership of the team. She is
currently transitioning into a faculty
position at Carnegie Mellon University from
Associate Professor of Computer Science at
Ithaca College. Wanda's research interests
include visualization in programming and
programming languages and innovative
approaches to introductory programming.
With Dr. Steve Cooper and Dr. Randy Pausch,
she has published papers on the use of
program visualization in teaching and
learning introductory programming. Papers
have appeared in ACM's Special Interest Group
on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
inroads, the Computer Science Education
Journal, and other related publications. She
is co-author of Learning to Program with
Alice (2006, Prentice-Hall).
Dr. Dann's leadership as a computer science
educator has been recognized in her various
roles as SIGCSE Technical Symposium
publications editor, special projects chair,
program chair, and symposium chair. She is
now a member of the SIGCSE Board.
Speaker: Dennis Cosgrove, Research Scientist
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Dennis Cosgrove has worked on the Alice
system since its beginnings back in the early
1990s when it was a rapid prototyping tool
for constructing head mounted display based
virtual environments. He played a key roll in
designing and implementing versions of Alice
which have striven to lower the barriers of
entry to 3D graphics and, more recently, to
support a gentler introduction to
programming.
As the sole designer and implementer, Dennis
has enjoyed unchecked, czar-like control over
all aspects of the Alice system since the
inception of Alice 3 in February, 2006.
Dennis has co-authored academic papers
presented at the ACM I3D, UIST, and SIGCHI
conferences.
Dennis was selected as the first Computer
Science Department "Undergraduate Education
Award" winner at the University of Virginia
in 1992. He was also selected as a Carnegie
Mellon University School of Computer Science
"Outstanding Member of the Community Award,"
as well as an University wide "Andy Award" in
2001.
Speaker: Caitlin Kelleher, Assistant
Professor (Washington University in St.
Louis)
Caitlin Kelleher is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science at Washington University in
St. Louis. She completed her doctorate at
Carnegie Mellon University working with
Professor Randy Pausch and spent her
undergraduate years at Virginia Tech.
Caitlin joined the Alice project in 1999 when
she began as a graduate student at Carnegie
Mellon. As part of her dissertation work...
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| Global Partnerships Microfinance Introductory Video |
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Global Partnerships is dedicated to expanding
opportunity for those living in poverty.
We believe poverty is at the root of some of
the world's greatest challenges, and
impoverished people can lift themselves and
their families from it if given the
opportunity. We use strategic philanthropy
combined with market oriented approaches to
create lasting solutions to global poverty.
For more information, please visit
www.globalpartnerships.org
Tags : poverty microfinance microcredit global partnerships |
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Durée : 394 s |
| Introductory Geology in Thai 10/12 Disaster |
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รอบรู้ธรณีไทย 10 -
ธรณีพิบัติภัย
Geological Disaster
ภัยธรรมชาติทางธ
รณีวิทยาในประเท
ศไทยถือว่าพบน้อ
ยกว่าส่วนอื่นขอ
งโลก ได้แก่
1.ดินถล่ม
(โคลนถล่ม)
เกิดจากฝนตกหนัก
น้ำไหลบ่าบนที่ส
ูงชัน
2.แม่น้ำกัดเซาะต
ิ่งพัง
และหลุมยุบ
เกิดตามธรรมชาติ
แต่กิจกรรมของมน
ุษย์เป็นตัวเร่ง
เช่น การสูบทราย
การสูบน้ำบาดาล
3. แผ่นดินไหว
และสึนามิ
ประเทศไทยไม่ใช่
แนวแผ่นดินไหวแต
่ก็มีพื้นที่เสี
่ยงภัย
ภาคตะวันตกและชา
ยฝั่งอันดามัน
ควรสังเกตปรากฏก
ารณ์ดึงมวลน้ำซึ
่งเป็นสัญญาณก่อ
นเกิดสึนามิ
ต้นฉบับ:
รอบรู้ธรณีไทย
ผลิต:
สำนักธรณีวิทยา
กรมทรัพยากรธรณี
(Thailand's Department of Mineral Resources)
http://www.dmr.go.th
Tags : ธรณีวิทยา thai geology landslide cave-in waterside erosion earthquake tsunami documentary physical science |
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Durée : 300 s |
| Tiger University Video Contest Introductory Video |
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Make funny, interesting, or otherwise "good"
videos? TigerDirect.com wants to know why you
deserve a new PC. There are 5 catagories for
which you can develop your film. Watch this
semi-helpful video designed to help you get
started. Then go nuts. We're waiting to see
what you come up with!
Add your video to our sweepstakes group at
http://www.youtube.com/group/wintigerpc
Add to "group" and choose the
"TigerDirect/Intel State $5000 Video Contest"
Full information at
http://www.tigerdirect.com/win
Tags : Tiger University Contest Introductory Video TigerTV TigerDirect |
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Durée : 118 s |
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