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EAN: 9780536106315 Edition: Custom Edition ISBN: 0536106312 Label: Pearson Custom Publishing Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing Number Of Pages: 318 Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing Studio: Pearson Custom Publishing Average Rating:
 Rating:  - great book & serviceBook was delivered quickly & in great shape. While others in my classes were still waiting to get thier book, from the book store on the first day; I had my a week before class & was ready to get started. Thank you for your great service. Rating: - Should be required reading for every person teaching computer scienceSince I first saw Alice demonstrated at a small college computer conference, I have remained convinced how innovative it is. Using the pre-existing objects a novice needs only a bit of direction in order to create functioning programs that generate animation. When I obtained a copy of this book I immediately started reading it and working through the programs. The Alice environment is very easy to use, there were very few times when I had to ponder my next move or consult the help. I am ... Read More Rating:  - Useless ... for a basic programmerIf you know the ABCs of programming already, this book is useless for you. Alice is soooo simple, it's absolutely easy for you to figure out on your own how each element in Alice works. On the other hand, if you don't know what "Java" or "C++" is, ummm ... buy this book. Actually, even if you don't know any programming language at all, Alice has an inbuilt tutorial, which is fairly simple to follow and covers most of what this book does. Rating:  - Doesn't Teach Alice At AllI will admit, there are some good definitions in here for the different concepts in programming. However, this is NOT a good way to actually learn Alice. The exercises are not explained in the text unless they are an extension of the chapter problem. The text teaches very little about how to use Alice. If the Alice interface wasn't so clunky, it would be easy to figure out. None of the examples relate to any of the actual exercises. A case in point is the fish problem in chapter 2. There ... Read More Rating: - Used it as textbook. Excellent!"One of Alice's real strengths is that it has been able to make abstract concepts concrete in the eyes of first- time programmers. " - Forward to the book. I used this book as a textbook in a one-semester introduction to programming course in my high school. I intend to use it again next year. Here is why: Each chapter begins with a motivational overview of the chapter's topic and end with exercises and projects. Storyboards are used to provide an algorithmic step-by-step description ... Read More |
