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Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out with series of textbooks. He has nearly two decades of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. Tony is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College Teacher of the Year, and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. Tony, Haywood Community College 1981 Business Administration and 1985 Electronic Data Processing graduate, was selected as Outstanding Alumni Recipient for 2012 for the college. His Starting Out with series includes introductory textbooks covering Programming Logic and Design, Alice, C++, Java, Microsoft Visual Basic, and Python.
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction to Alice and Objects
Chapter 2 Programming in Alice
Chapter 3 Variables, Functions, Math, and Strings
Chapter 4 Decision Structures
Chapter 5 Repetition Structures
Chapter 6 Methods, Functions, and More about Variables
Chapter 7 Events
Chapter 8 Lists and Arrays
Chapter 9 Recursion
Appendix A Installing Alice
Appendix B Answers to Checkpoints
Index
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction to Alice and Objects
1.1 What Is a Computer Program?
1.2 Algorithms and Programming Languages
1.3 Learning to Program with Alice
TUTORIAL 1-1: Opening and playing an Alice world
1.4 Objects
1.5 Classes and the Alice Galleries
TUTORIAL 1-2: Creating a world and adding objects
1.6 3D Objects and the Camera
TUTORIAL 1-3: Moving the camera in 3D space
TUTORIAL 1-4: Manipulating objects in 3D space
TUTORIAL 1-5: Manipulating subpart objects
Review Questions
Chapter 2 Programming in Alice
2.1 Writing Methods
TUTORIAL 2-1: Adding instructions to an Alice world
TUTORIAL 2-2: Exploring additional primitive methods
2.2 Naming Conventions
2.3 Designing a Program
TUTORIAL 2-3: Using the program design cycle
2.4 Comments
TUTORIAL 2-4: Inserting comments
2.5 Tips for Setting Up an Initial Scene
2.6 Executing Instructions Simultaneously
TUTORIAL 2-5: Creating simultaneously executed instructions
2.7 Exporting Your Code for Printing
2.8 Exporting an Alice World to Video
Review Questions
Chapter 3 Variables, Functions, Math, and Strings
3.1 Variables
TUTORIAL 3-1: Creating and using a variable
TUTORIAL 3-2: Creating a set instruction for a variable
3.2 Using Functions
TUTORIAL 3-3: Calling an ask user function
TUTORIAL 3-4: Using a proximity function
3.3 Creating Math Expressions
TUTORIAL 3-5: Using math to avoid collisions
3.4 Working with Strings and Text
TUTORIAL 3-6: Converting a Number variable to a string
Review Questions
Chapter 4 Decision Structures
4.1 Boolean Values
4.2 The If/Else Decision Structure
TUTORIAL 4-1: Creating an If/Else instruction
TUTORIAL 4-2: Creating a Single-Alternative Decision Structure
4.3 Nested If/Else Decision Structures
TUTORIAL 4-3: Creating Nested If/Else Instructions
4.4 Relational Comparisons and Logical Operators
TUTORIAL 4-3: Using a relational operator
TUTORIAL 4-4: Testing an object’s color property
Review Questions
Chapter 5 Repetition Structures
5.1 The Loop Instruction
TUTORIAL 5-1: Using the Loop instruction
TUTORIAL 5-2: Creating a User-Controlled Loop
5.2 The While Instruction
TUTORIAL 5-3: Using a While instruction to make an object vanish
TUTORIAL 5-4: Using a While instruction to make an object smaller
TUTORIAL 5-5: Using the While instruction to move an object
5.3 Nested Loops
Review Questions
Chapter 6 Methods, Functions, and More about Variables
6.1 Writing Custom Class-Level Methods
TUTORIAL 6-1: Creating a class-level method
6.2 Saving an Object to a New Class
TUTORIAL 6-2: Saving an object to a class
6.3 Stepwise Refinement
TUTORIAL 6-3: Completing the WorkOut world
6.4 Passing Arguments
TUTORIAL 6-4: Passing arguments to a method
6.5 Using Class-Level Variables as Properties
TUTORIAL 6-5: Adding a property to an object
6.6 Writing Class-Level Functions
TUTORIAL 6-6: Writing a class-level function
TUTORIAL 6-7: Writing a class-level function
6.7 World-Level Methods and Variables
6.8 Using Clipboards
6.9 Tips for Visual Effects and Animation
Review Questions
Chapter 7 Events
7.1 Responding to Events
7.2 Handling Key Press and Mouse Events
TUTORIAL 7-1: Handling key press events
TUTORIAL 7-2: Handling the while a key is pressed event
TUTORIAL 7-3: Handling a mouse click event
7.3 Using Events in Simulations and Games
7.4 Tips for Games and Simulations
Review Questions
Chapter 8 Lists and Arrays
8.1 Lists
TUTORIAL 8-1: Creating a list and using the For all in order
and For all together instructions
TUTORIAL 8-2: More complex list processing
TUTORIAL 8-3: Using the Let the mouse move <objects> event
8.2 Arrays
TUTORIAL 8-4: Creating an array and a loop that steps through it
TUTORIAL 8-5: Randomly selecting an array element
Review Questions
Chapter 9 Recursion
9.1 Introduction to Recursion
TUTORIAL 9-1: Creating a recursive method
9.2 Problem Solving with Recursion
TUTORIAL 9-2: Recursive problem solving in animation
TUTORIAL 9-3: Writing a recursive mathematical function
Review Questions
Appendix A Installing Alice
Appendix B Answers to Checkpoints
Index
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