alice worldUnderstanding the Alice Virtual World

Understanding the Alice Virtual World

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Unit I: Introduction: Instalation and Alice Navigation

In this module, you will gain a deeper understanding of objects in the Alice virtual world.

Please study the material at each of the links below.

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