[IEEE-bhpjobs] Visualization Friday Forum Friday, September 23rd noon-1pm in room D106 LSRC

[Walter Heger]

Visualization Friday Forum
Friday, September 23rd noon-1pm in room D106 LSRC
	Lunch will be served

Speaker: Susan Rogers, Computer Science

A New Approach to Introductory Programming - Building Virtual Worlds
with Alice

  The software tool Alice makes learning to program easy and fun.  With
Alice a novice can create a 3D virtual world.  This world might be a
story, or it might be an interactive game.  Students select 3D objects,
place them in a virtual world, and give these objects functionality.
For example, the world may be a snow scene with a frozen pond, an
object may be an ice skater, and the student teaches the ice skater how
to skate, spin and even blink. Alice cuts down on frustration with its
drag-and-drop interface. It is difficult to make a typing or syntax
error.  We present the tool Alice and show how we use it for teaching
introductory programming in the course CompSci 4 at Duke.
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The Visualization seminar series is a forum for faculty, staff and
students from across the university to share their research involving
the development and/or application of visualization methodologies.  Our
goal is to build an interdisciplinary community of visualization
experts
whose combined knowledge can facilitate research and promote
innovation.

The Friday Forum Fall 2005 Schedule is available at
http://vis.duke.edu/FridayForum/05Fall.html

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