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Understanding the Alice Virtual World

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Module 6: Understanding the Alice Virtual World

The goal of this lesson is to understand how objects view the world
and how to move them in the Alice virtual world.
You will be able to move, turn and roll the objects that make up your scene.

In this module, you will gain a deeper understanding of objects in the Alice virtual world. In order to do this you will need to:

• Understand the basic principles of object motion and rotation
• How Objects see the Virtual World: Video demonstrates move, turn and roll
• Understand that each object has a sense of direction
• Be able to add code to move, turn and roll.
• Use a sequence of actions to create a dance routine, or other complex action.

In order to do this you will:

• Understand the basic principles of object motion and rotation
• How Objects see the Virtual World: Video demonstrates move, turn and roll
• Understand that each object has a sense of direction
• Be able to add code to move, turn and roll.
• Use a sequence of actions to create a dance routine, or other complex action.
• Create and call scene procedures

Print the lesson

Please study the material at each of the links below.

1. Movement in Alice: Video demonstrates the basic principles of object motion and rotation
   /alice/videos/ObjectMotion.mp4
   

2. How Objects see the Virtual World: Video demonstrates move, turn and roll
   /alice/videos/MoveTurnOrRoll.mp4
   
3. Directions: Each object has a sense of direction: forward, backward, left, right, up, backward, and down.
   /alice/videos/alice-direction.mp4
   
4. Dolphin tricks: Moves, Turn and Roll: A dolphin moves up, down, left and right
   /alice/videos/alice-dolphin-tricks.mp4
   
5. A Dancing Chicken using move, turn and roll: How to add move, turn and roll procedures to the code
   /alice/videos/alice-dancing-chicken.mp4
   
6. Using Functions: Shows the difference between procedures and functions.
   /alice/videos/alice-use-functions.mp4
   
7. Eagle flies around the mesa: Eagle flies places using place and spatial relations.
   /alice/videos/alice-eagle-flies.mp4
   
8. Rabbit Falls in Pond using Functions: Uses the functions getDistanceTo and getHeight.
   /alice/videos/alice-rabbit-fall.mp4
   
9. Self Study Questions: What have you learned?
   
   
10. Discussion Questions
    
    

Active Learning

Create a dance routine.