3D Authoring Tool Alice Now Available for Mac
Alice is a 3D authoring system from Carnegie Mellon University geared towards teaching programming to children.
Alice address both the mechanical and sociological barriers that currently prevent many students from successfully learning to program a computer. Alice addresses the mechanical barriers to programming by making it much easier for students to create programs. Rather than having to correctly type commands according to obscure rules of syntax, students drag-and-drop words in a direct manipulation interface. This user interface ensures that programs are always well-formed. In addition, Alice reifies object-based programming by providing animated, on-screen 3D virtual objects.
Alice comes with hundreds of pre-made objects, and you can also make your own objects in other modeling packages and then import them into Alice. The package is released as open source and the source is included in the install of Alice.
Alice.org
Download for OS X (136 MB)
http://www.alice.org/downloads/authoringtool/mac/Alice-2.0.5.dmg
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