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Exercises from Chapter 1
1. Complete Exercise 1.1, Island World: _______
2. Complete Exercise 1.2, Winter: ______
3. Complete 1.4
Exercise 1.5, Soldiers on Deck
Concept Questions Alice 2.0 (Short answer)
1. The authors state that programming with Alice is
"…like being a movie director, a puppeteer, or a
choreographer." Explain what is meant by this statement
2.Describe what is meant by the term computer program in one or two sentences.
3.When a computer program is described as elegant, what criteria are being used to judge the program?
4.List three ways in which a class (3D model) is similar to a blueprint for a house.
5.Why is an object in an Alice world said to have six degrees of freedom?
6.Is the center of an Alice object always located at its center of mass? Justify your answer.
7. Use a diagram to illustrate the distance between two Alice objects. Describe the distance in a sentence.
8.An Alice billboard is considered 2D rather than 3D.
Why?
