First Summer 2006

A program is a carefully designed sequence of steps.

We presented Alice and wrote a simple program.

Writing a program in Alice has two parts:

1. creating a scene (setting up the data), and
2. writing a method (the actual program to be executed).

We emphasized knowing one's tools when one tries to come up with a program.

The program that we wrote was by and large like this:

We had a bit of trouble locating the right methods, and we'll talk about that again later.

We discussed a bit the calendar and the grading and indicated we'll post info in the evening.

Chapters 1 and 2 are to be practiced in lab today, and need to be known for tomorrow's lecture.