Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows 95/98/NT built by the Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. The Alice project is a public service to the wider computing and artistic communities; our hope is to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. The current version of Alice authoring tool is free to everyone and runs on computers that are commonly available for reasonable prices. Worlds created in Alice can be viewed and interacted with inside of a standard web browser once the Alice plug-in has been installed.
The scripting language used by Alice is a slightly modified version of Python, a language itself designed to be used by novices.
I don't have a windows box, so I haven't played with it, but it looks like it would be a good, fun way to ease kids into programming.
The Age is one of the two or three most reputable papers in Australia. As far as journalistic integrity, independence and so forth go, it would compare well with just about any other major English language paper you care to name.
Of course, the story itself looks like it's taken directly from the AFP wire; and the AFP is up there amongst the CNNs and the like. AFP is also French, and so will likely have pro-French biases.
But considering the sources, they're reputable, so it's likely that the French Defence Ministry did, in fact, say what the story claims they said.
Whether the French government is correct is another matter...
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The scripting language used by Alice is a slightly modified version of Python, a language itself designed to be used by novices.
I don't have a windows box, so I haven't played with it, but it looks like it would be a good, fun way to ease kids into programming.
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The Age is one of the two or three most reputable papers in Australia. As far as journalistic integrity, independence and so forth go, it would compare well with just about any other major English language paper you care to name.
Of course, the story itself looks like it's taken directly from the AFP wire; and the AFP is up there amongst the CNNs and the like. AFP is also French, and so will likely have pro-French biases.
But considering the sources, they're reputable, so it's likely that the French Defence Ministry did, in fact, say what the story claims they said.
Whether the French government is correct is another matter...