May 17-24 Alice Unit 2

ASSIGNMENTS

• Turn in Storyboard Homework
• Read Chapter 2 Alice Textbook
• Watch Power Point and complete Unit 2 Handout
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Items must move life like!!!!
• Computer Final Exam May 25-28

OBJECTIVES

Decide on the problem to be solved - must understand the task before you can begin

• Design a problem
• The solution
• How can we create this animaiton?
• A textual storyboard is like a to-do list

Program Instructions may have arguments:

• Example: for the move instruction, the argument we used in this example were; direction and distance

DoTogether and DoInOrder blocks can be used one inside the other.

• An important step in creating a program is to run it to be sure it does what you expect it to do.
• We recommend that you use an incremental development process:
• Write a few lines of code and then run it
• write a few more lines and run it
• write a few more line and run it.....

While Alice instructions are easy to understand, a particular combination of the instructions may perform an action that is not immediately obvious.

Comments are used to document the code - explain the purpose of a particular segment of the program to the human reader.

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