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Alice 3: concrete to abstract

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 8

Pages 27 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/1536616.1536628

Published: 01 August 2009 Publication History

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The innovative Alice 3 programming environment, currently in beta testing, teaches students to program with Alice and Java software.

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Alice 3: concrete to abstract
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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August 2009

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