Alice Homework for Thursday, November 3, 2005

 

Everyone:  Download Alice from www.alice.org  (Alice.zip)

                 Extract all the files

                 Install Alice (i.e. Run setup.exe)

                 Once it’s installed run either Alice.exe or SlowAndSteadyAlice.exe

 

NOTE: I e-mailed Wanda Dann (one of the book’s authors) to ask about the difference between Alice.exe and SlowandSteadyAlice and she said:  “Alice.exe is the commonly used version of Alice.  The SlowAndSteadyAlice.exe is for older machines or laptops that have limited RAM and/or slow graphics capabilities.”

 

                 Go through tutorial #1

                 Tutorial #2 appears to work fine (in spite of my warning in class)

                  my Tutorial #3 got stuck at step 44

 

Create a World according to one of the following scenarios (or create your own) and bring it to class on a CD or your flash drive (it won’t fit on a floppy) on Thursday.  Note, if you create your own,  make a text story board first, put that on the disk and bring that to class too.

 

Choice 1.   

Download FirstEncounter.txt from https://users.cs.jmu.edu/adamses/public

Rename it FirstEncounter.a2w

Now you can open it from Alice  (here’s its storyboard)

Do the following steps in order

  alien moves up

  alien says “slithy toves?”

  robot’s head turns around

  robot turns to look t alien

Do together

  robot mores toward the alien

  robot legs walk

alien moves down

robot turns to look at the camera

robot’s head turns read (to signal danger)robot says “Houston, we have a problem!”

Choice 2:  Download Alice+wolf.txt from https://users.cs.jmu.edu/adamses/public

Rename it Alice+wolf.a2w

1.      Run Alice.

2.     Open the Alice+Wolf world

Add the following features to the Alice+Wolf world

1.              Make the Mad Scientist turn and face Alice

2.              Make the scientist walk toward Alice (you will need to use a loop)

3.              Make Alice wave her left arm

4.              Have the wolf face the tree

5.              Have Alice move to the Scientist

6.              Write a method called "approach" to have the Scientist take 3 steps toward Alice and Alice move backwards 2 meters.

7.              Create an event so that when the 'A' key is pressed, the approach method is activated.

8.              Write a method for Alice called 'react'

a.               if Alice is within 3 meters of the wolf she should say "Yikes"

b.              otherwise she should turn to face the wolf and move forward 2 meters

9.              Create an event so that when the 'R' key is pressed, Alice's react method is run.

 

 

Choice 3 The Dragon and the Mummy

Create the world as follows

  1. Choose the Dirt world from the selection of possible worlds.
  2. From the Medieval gallery, add a Dragon into your world.
  3. From the Medieval gallery, add a Tower into your world not too close to the Dragon.
  4. From the Building gallery, add many Fence sections and arrange them to surround the Dragon.
  5. From the Egypt gallery, add a Mummy on top of the tower.

Add the following actions to your world

  1. Make the mummy say some thing to the dragon
  2. Have the dragon move its head and flap its wings at the same time
    Hint: Write a dragon method called     flap to do the wing flapping
  3. Make the mummy say something else to the dragon
  4. Have the dragon fly to the top of the tower.
    Hint: Write a fly dragon fly method that uses the flap method developed earlier.
  5. Have the mummy climb on top of the dragon's back
  6. Have the dragon fly away with the mummy on board
    You can use the dragon's fly method developed earlier.
  7. Put the above sequence in a method call run and have run activated when the 'R' key is hit.
  8. Create an event 'D' that places the camera on the Dragon's head.
  9. Create an event 'M' that places the camera on the Mummy's head.

 

 

 

Choice 4:  

Create a world where Mana (People) has a magnet (Objects) held out in her hand.  Add five metallic objects (Objects folder in Local, or Web gallery) of your choice to the world and one by one have Mana point the magnet at each object. 

As Mana points the magnet toward an object, have the object move to the magnet.  Have the last object be very large (perhaps a car from the Vehicles folder) so when Mana points at it, she instead is pulled toward the object while saying something like “Who!” or “Yikes!”.

 

Choice 5:

Make up your own story board and animation!

 

 

ENJOY YOURSELVES AND BE CREATIVE