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 Understanding the Alice Virtual World

Understanding the Alice Virtual World

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Module 05: Understanding the Alice Virtual World

Goals:

• Understand how objects view the world;
• Learn how to move objects in the Alice virtual world;
• Be able to move, turn and roll the objects that make up your scene;
• Gain a deeper understanding of objects in the Alice virtual world.

Objectives:

• Understand the basic principles of object motion and rotation;
• How Objects see the Virtual World: Video demonstrates move, turn and roll;
• Understand that each object has a sense of direction;
• Be able to add code to move, turn and roll;
• Use a sequence of actions to create a dance routine, or other complex action.

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Please study the material at each of the links below.

1. Movement in Alice: Video demonstrates the basic principles of object motion and rotation
2. How Objects see the Virtual World: Video demonstrates move, turn and roll
3. Directions: Each object has a sense of direction: forward, backward, left, right, up, backward, and down.
4. Dolphin tricks: Moves, Turn and Roll: A dolphin moves up, down, left and right
5. A Dancing Chicken using move, turn and roll: How to add move, turn and roll procedures to the code
6. Using Functions: Shows the difference between procedures and functions.
7. Eagle flies around the mesa: Eagle flies places using place and spatial relations.
8. Rabbit Falls in Pond using Functions: Uses the functions getDistanceTo and getHeight.
9. Self Study Questions: What have you learned?
10. Discussion questions: What do you think?

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