Alice Tutorial 2.4 Lesson 10.1 - Loops and Looping Introduction
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Lesson 10.1 looks at the Loop Block available in Alice. You may have had a chance to experiment with this block in earlier lessons, but it has never been formally introduced in this series. This lesson starts by looking at how to use a loop command to make a simple walking animation easier. Looping the code makes changing the animation in the future more painless. We'll also look at short duration looping, a concept that is necessary when we get into interactive programs. We'll use this technique when we need animations to run in .1 second chunks instead of large chucks (that can take 30 seconds or more in some cases).
This is an introductory series of Alice Tutorials. This course, from start to finish, is designed to help someone who has never programmed before learn the basics of coding. Alice is appropriate for all age levels and is taught to new programmers usually from about Junior High School, although there are concepts and features that can be entertaining to even skilled programmers. As this series continues, we examine more advanced Alice techniques, functions, and methods.
You can download a copy of Alice 2.4.2 from http://www.alice.org.
This series was based on a lack of step by step tutorials available at this point. While good tutorials do exist, they are spread across multiple channels and often times don't have a step-by-step learning process. Following this series of videos should provide solid examples and explanations from very basic to more advanced concepts.