Post on 20-Aug-2015
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SOFTWARE OPTIONS
GameStar Mechanic Web based (works on Mac, PC) No Download required. Teacher and Student accounts
SOFTWARE OPTIONS
Alice Made by Carnegie Mellon From alice.org:
“students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#.”
GET STARTED - GAMEMAKER
GameMaker software www.yoyogames.com/make
GameMaker Challenges w/ teacher materials http://activategames.org/
GET STARTED - KODU
http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu Main download site, tutorials
http://planetkodu.com/ Community site,tutorials (Earn badges for
contributing!)
GETTING STARTED - ALICE www.alice.org/
Description from the site, “Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. “
GETTING STARTED - SCRATCH http://scratch.mit.edu/
Description from the site, “Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.”