[needs-packaging] Alice (programming education software)

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[needs-packaging] Alice

Alice is software designed to teach programming easily, and with graphical, 3D output. It focuses on storytelling, not computation, as a way to get students interested. It has been shown to significantly increase the likelihood of new programming students to stick with it, and do better. It uses a simple drag and drop structure to teach students how programs are formed.

It is primarily made by Carnegie Mellon, and has had contribution and support (of code or capital) from Google, the NSF, Microsoft, Disney, DARPA, Pixar, Intel, Chevron, NASA, and others. Electronic Arts has been a major contributor, and Alice 3.0 (released in a few months) will use models donated from The Sims 2. It is used by %10 of colleges in the United States,

URL: http://www.alice.org/index.php

License: BSD-style "Alice License"; see http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=license