May 3-14

Assignments:

Alice Unit 1

• Due by Friday May 7 or May 10 - Some might need to be done as homework.
  
• Skater/Naptime/Penquin/Robot Tutorials
• CREATE A FOLDER ON THE DESKTOP WITH YOUR NAME. Save all of your work in that folder.
  
• Getting Started Part I
• Getting Started Part II

• Due by May 13 or May 14
  
• Exercise 1.1 Island World
• Exercise 1.2 Winter
• Exercise 1.3 Snowpeople Pile
• Extra Credit: 1.5 Soldiers on Deck
• Unit I Handout

Objectives:

• Algorithmic thinking and expression: being able to read and write in a formal language.
• Abstraction: learning how to communicate complex ideas simply, and to decompose problems logically.
• Appreciation of elegance: realizing that although there are many ways to solve a problem, some are inherently better than others.