BITWISE: Information Technology Literacy for Grade School (3rd Edition) Grade 11

In this day and age, computers are increasingly becoming more and more important as their range of applications steadily broadens to encompass practically every area of our lives. From research and studies to hobbies and entertainment, computers have become an integral part in making most things in our lives easier, more convenient and more efficient. This makes programming a very useful skill since it allows us to make a computer do anything we want it to (within the bounds of its hardware capabilities).

Written By

Kyle Stephen S. See/ Marco Daniel D. De Santos

Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo,Ph.D.

Walfrido David A. Diy

Synopsis

In this book, we will introduce you to the world of Jigsaw Programming, a variant of programming that allows programmers to write code by combining jigsaw puzzle-like pieces making the code easier and less confusing to write, in the hopes that the concepts learned from this will translate to a better understanding of programming when this is tackled in G12. We will be using a free 3D animation suite from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called Alice for this.

We’ll start with an introduction to what exactly Jigsaw Programming and Alice are. From this, we will move on to setting up scenes by creating and positioning models in a 3D world. After which, we will move on to writing code in Alice starting from the most basic control statements up until arrays, loops, and event handling.

We hope that this will be a joyful and enriching experience for you and that its lessons will carry on to your G12.