Exploring Wonderland: Java Programming Using Alice and Media Computation

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Getting Started with Alice

            1-1 Introduction to Alice

            1-2 Alice concepts

Chapter 2  Program Design and Implementation in Alice

            2-1 Scenarios and storyboard design

            2-2 Translating a storyboard to program code

Chapter 3 Object Oriented Concepts in Alice

            3-1 Classes, objects, and methods

            3-2 Creating object methods and inheritance

            3-3 Using parameters for passing information to a method

Chapter 4 Working with Objects in Java

            4-1 Introduction to DrJava

            4-2 Working with turtles

            4-3 Creating methods in Java

            4-4 Passing parameters to methods

            4-5 Concepts summary

Chapter 5 Drawing in Java

            5-1 Working with Media

            5-2 Drawing using the Graphics class

            5-3 Using Graphics2D for advanced drawing

5-4 Using Media Computation with Alice Pictures

5-5 Concepts Summary

Chapter 6 Functions and Conditionals in Alice

            6-1 Functions and abstraction

            6-2 Conditional execution with If/Else and Boolean functions

Chapter 7 Repetition:  Loops in Alice

            7-1 For loops and nested for loops

            7-2 While — a conditional loop

            7-3 Lists and looping

            7-4 List search

Chapter 8  Modifying all samples in a sound in Java

            8-1 How sound is encoded as a 1D array

            8-2 Manipulating sounds

            8-3 Changing the volume of sounds with loops

8-4 Conditionally modifying sounds

            8-5 Using Media Computation with Alice

            8-6 Concepts summary

Chapter 9 Modifying samples using ranges

            9-1 Manipulating different sections of a sound differently

            9-2 Creating a sound clip 

            9-3 Splicing sounds

            9-4 Reversing a sound

            9-5 Mirroring a sound

            9-6 Blending sounds

9-7 Creating an echo

9-8 How sampling keyboards work

9-9 Using Alice with Media Computation

9-10 Concepts summary

Chapter 10 Modifying pictures using loops

            10-1 How pictures are encoded

            10-2 Manipulating pictures

            10-3 Changing color values

            10-4 Using Media Computation with Alice

            10-5 Concepts summary

Chapter 11 Modifying pixels in a matrix

            11- 1 Copying pixels using a nested loop

            11-2 Copying and transforming pictures

            11-3 Using Media Computation with Alice

            11-4 Concepts summary

Chapter 12 Conditionally modifying pixels

            12-1 Conditional pixel changes

            12-2 Simple edge detection, conditionals with two options

            12-3 Sepia-toned and posterized pictures, multiple conditionals

            12-4 Highlighting extremes

            12-5 Combing pixels: Blurring

            12-6 Background subtraction

            12-7 Chromakey

            12-8 Using Media Computation with Alice

            12-9 Concepts summary

Chapter 13 Creating classes

            13-1 Identifying the objects and the fields

            13-2 Defining a class

            13-3 Overloading constructors

            13-4 Working with arrays

            13-5 Creating accessors (getters) and modifiers (setters)

            13-6 Creating a main method

            13-7 Javadoc comments

            13-8 Reusing a class via inheritance

            13-9 Using Media Computation with Alice

            13-10 Concepts summary

Chapter 14 Creating and modifying text

            14-1 Text as unimedia

            14-2 Strings: character sequences

            14-3 Files: places to put your strings and other stuff

            14-4 Other useful classes: Random

            14-5 Networks: getting our text from the web

            14-6 Using text to shift between media

            14-7 Concepts Summary

Chapter 15 Repetition: recursion in Alice

            15-1 Introduction to recursion

            15-2 Another flavor of recursion

Chapter 16 Speed

            16-1 Focusing on Computer Science

            16-2 What makes programs fast?

            16-3 What makes a computer fast?

            16-4 Concepts summary

Chapter 17  Encoding, manipulating, and creating movies

            17-1 Generating Frame-based Animations

            17-2 Working with video frames

            17-3 Using Media Computation with Alice

            17-4 Concepts summary

Chapter 18 Abstract Classes, Polymorphism, and Inheritance

            18-1 Object Oriented Analysis

            18-2 Generalization / Specialization

            18-3 Polymorphism

            18-4 Shape example

            18-5 Interfaces

            18-6 Interfaces and Abstract Classes

            18-7 Concept summary

Appendices

A.     Using Alice — a tutorial

B.     Alice tips & techniques

C.     Quick reference to Java