Im huge on efforts like Alice and other projects to bring novices and newbies into the ranks of programming. Just as I think everybody has a book in them, I believe everybody has at least one good ...

Alice, named for the main character in Lewis Carroll’s “ Alice in Wonderland, is a three-dimensional programming environment in which you drag and drop graphic tiles to create programs.

Wanda Dann, director of the Alice Project, said Alice is used in more than 15 percent of colleges and universities and has become a "popular teaching tool" in secondary schools. She said she expects ...

Students created projects in Alice in five different categories: environment, sports, entertainment, transportation and social values. On May 8, they came together at CMU-Q to present their ...

More than 80 students from around Qatar competed in the Alice Programming Competition at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university. There were 34 teams of ...

Alice was the key research project of Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon's beloved professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design who died of pancreatic cancer last summer at the ...

Software giant Electronic arts has pledged its support for the continued improvements to Carnegie Mellon University's Alice programming software, which is used to teach US students the basics of ...