Teaching Unit- Introduction to Computer Programming

Originally Posted by Vettish

I was in the market for just this sort of material... I'm mentoring a group of 9 students after school twice a week on a shoestring budget. We are also doing some robotics, so having a really useful free resources is a god send.

Thanks!

You are certainly welcome. Hope that it works well for you and your students.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

Thank you.
Here is a basic tutorial.
http://www.kidslike.info/programming...id_robot_trick

Originally Posted by lanceA

If you are looking for texts for the very basics in ALICE try these:

ISBN: 978-1-4188-5934-3 - VERY basic

ISBN: 978-1-4188-3625-2 - more advanced

ISBN: 978-1-4188-3771-6 - nice for beginners

ISBN: 978-0-321-47515-2 - I just received this book and can not comment about its content

Good luck,

Can you give us an update on the last book in the list? Where does it fall in the realm of learning Alice? Basic, Advanced, not recommended, etc? (Particularly for young students?)

Thanks,