Alice - Educational 3D Computer Programming Freeware

About Alice

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment available free of cost from Carnegie Mellon University providing students their first hands-on experience to object-oriented programming. The students will be able to create animations for telling a story or create interactive games or animations for class projects. Alice also helps students to learn the fundamental programming concepts.

The Alice interface is pretty simple and the objects required for the animation is readily available as a gallery which can be easily dragged and dropped to the stage or scene. These objects can be programmed by drag and drop of statements.

Minimum System Requirements

Desktop or laptop with minimum 1 GB RAM (2 or more recommended)

VGA graphics card capable of high (32 bit) color and at least 1024x768 resolution 

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7 or Linux or Mac

JAVA JDK

You can download the Java JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html

Click on accept agreement and click on 

Windows x86

88.77 MB

jdk-7u11-windows-i586.exe

 to download JDK for Windows 32 bit OS.

Install JDK  and then download and install Alice.

Where to get Alice

Alice can be downloaded freely from http://www.alice.org.

Click Downloads->Get Alice 3.1 (the latest version as on date). Better download the offline installer.

The basics of Alice programming and tutorials will be added on this blog soon.
Leave a comment if you have any questions!