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Students Can Create Animations of Garfield the Cat With New Version of Carnegie Mellon's Alice Software
The newest version of the Alice Project software helps beginners create animations using a simple drag-and-drop interface.
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Carnegie Mellon University recently released version 2.4 of the Alice Project, free educational programming software that enables beginners to create animations using a simple drag-and-drop interface to select character objects, props, and scenes from a gallery of three-dimensional models.
Alice 2.4 is geared toward middle and high school students, and features all of the popular characters from the Garfield comic strip, including Garfield, Odie, Jon, and Nermel. The developers say the Alice materials eventually also will be accessible through the Professor Garfield Web portal, which provides a variety of educational games and materials.
"Alice is used in classrooms around the globe, so we appreciate the influence an internationally recognized character such as Garfield has on school children," says Alice Project director Wanda Dann. She notes that Alice currently is used in more than 15 percent of colleges and universities and has become a popular teaching tool in secondary schools.
From Carnegie Mellon News (PA)
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