My classmates Sean and Kristy, the recommendations from Dr. Gibson on “The Last Lecture,” and our game development curriculum grant inspired me to dig further into the Alice Programming Language. As a result, I submitted to be a beta tester for Alice 3.0 Spring 2009. To do this we need to offer a course in Alice, and visit Carnegie Mellon to have an orientation (myself and a teaching assistant), and agree to submitting any bug reports we encounter. As many of my students know, I pretend to have a “hot line” to Bill Gates when we encounter problems within the Visual Studio.NET product. It would be really nice to “actually” have a hotline with the Alice folks. We’ll see what develops!
I just received notification that I have been added to the beta email list for Alice v 3.0!