What better way to learn programming than to start with playing with the fun and simplified building blocks of programing? And what better way to do this than to use Alice~(Link to the Alice site)
Alice is a fun and creative program to make3D environments which makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing games, or a video to share online. Alice is a free available program designed to be a student's first baby step to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn the basics programming concepts. This is done in the context of creating animated stories and simple games. In this program, 3-D objects (ones already made like animals and plants) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects by dragging and dropping commands.
This was a fun learning experience under the ever-guiding Sir Norms. He made use do projects using this program. The most memorable was the first one. This one was about making a turtle run/jog. the catch there is the Sir Norms wanted there to be a scenery, a story, birds, and the jogging turtle. I wanted to add a little more so I dropped in a waterfalls, a dinosaur, and sound effects(bird chirping).
The story of my little animation starts with the turtle jogging into view. By view I mean the scene with the waterfalls and the trees with the sound of birds chirping in the background. It has a few opening remarks with the speech bubbles I found. the story progresses with the turtle meeting the water dinosaur, which look s like the magical Liopluradon from Charlie the Unicorn. This dinosaur asks the turtle if he was food and gets the answer no so it leaves back into the waterfalls. Once the dinosaur is gone the turtle goes birdwatching and sees all kinds of birds. The end.
Another story I created using Alice was themed about war. It is a simple alien war with two sides. In this project I had two group of soldiers fuse into two bigger soldiers which I had fight. I was able to play with the light setting so that the screen would go into a shade of red each time the bullet was shot. At the end I pulled in a Pokemon theme where in one opponent is shot at with a gigantic bullet and is trapped in a Pyramid.
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