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Books : Learning to Program with Alice (Custom Edition for William Rainey Harper College)Get all your favorite discounted items here in Books and Learning to Program with Alice (Custom Edition for William Rainey Harper College)! by: Randy Pausch  EAN: 9780536106315 ISBN: 0536106312 Label: Pearson Custom Publishing Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing Number Of Pages: 318 Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing Studio: Pearson Custom Publishing Sales Rank: 2000461 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - great book & serviceBook was delivered quickly & in great shape. While others in my classes were still waiting to get thier book, from the book store on the first day; I had my a week before class & was ready to get started. Thank you for your great service. Rating: - Should be required reading for every person teaching computer scienceSince I first saw Alice demonstrated at a small college computer conference, I have remained convinced how innovative it is. Using the pre-existing objects a novice needs only a bit of direction in order to create functioning programs that generate animation. When I obtained a copy of this book I immediately started reading it and working through the programs. The Alice environment is very easy to use, there were very few times when I had to ponder my next move or consult the help. I am ... Read More Rating: - Great service but misread itemI got the books quickly and in good shape. However, I did not see the Brief Edition explanation. The brief only has 5 of the 10 chapters. If I had seen this I would have ordered the full version. Rating:  - Useless ... for a basic programmerIf you know the ABCs of programming already, this book is useless for you. Alice is soooo simple, it's absolutely easy for you to figure out on your own how each element in Alice works. On the other hand, if you don't know what "Java" or "C++" is, ummm ... buy this book. Actually, even if you don't know any programming language at all, Alice has an inbuilt tutorial, which is fairly simple to follow and covers most of what this book does. Rating:  - Doesn't Teach Alice At AllI will admit, there are some good definitions in here for the different concepts in programming. However, this is NOT a good way to actually learn Alice. The exercises are not explained in the text unless they are an extension of the chapter problem. The text teaches very little about how to use Alice. If the Alice interface wasn't so clunky, it would be easy to figure out. None of the examples relate to any of the actual exercises. A case in point is the fish problem in chapter 2. There ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: 
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