What is Alice?
The www.alice.org – official website provides a quick introduction.
Using an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create animations or games, the Alice Project seeks to provide tools and materials for a conceptual core of computational thinking, problem-solving, and computer programming.
The Alice Suite of educational tools is designed to support teaching and learning across a spectrum of ages, grade levels, and classes in K-12 and in college or university courses.
You need to install JDK and JRE from http://www.oracle.com.
1 | jdk-7u9-linux-i586.rpm |
1 | jre-7u9-linux-i586.rpm |
Make it executable.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | $ chmod +x Alice3Installer-Online-3.1.51.0.0-linux.sh $ ./Alice3Installer-Online-3.1.51.0.0-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... |
See the content of the folder.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | $ cd Alice3/ ... Alice3]$ ls alice3.sh ext application gallery EULA_Alice3.txt lib EULA_LookingGlassWalkAndTouch.txt LICENSE-aliceinstaller.txt EULA_TheSimsTM2ArtAsset.txt uninstall.sh |
Run the script:
1 | $ sh alice3.sh |
This is the first GUI window of the installation program.
Select Alice application and press Next button.
Accept License Agreement.
The next step is to select a folder for the application.
Press Install button.
You will see the progress of the installation.
After you can see the logs and details. Press the Finish button.
Accept End User License Agreement.
This is first IDE for your to Select Project and allow you to select one template.
The IDE to develops your first project.
This is the first tutorial to install Alice.
I will write more in the future. See you later.