Programming

Programming camp will allow students to learn the concepts of computer programming and encourage the students to think about complex ideas and concepts rationally and logically. Through fun and engaging experiences with Alice, a 3D programming environment developed by Carnegie Mellon, and Scratch, a programming environment specifically developed for young students by MIT,  students will learn how to create their own games, interactive stories and arts.

Featured Software

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

Scratch is a new programming language, developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.