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Alice 2.0 vs. Storytelling Alice

What is the difference between Alice 2.0 and Storytelling Alice, and which is right for me?

Alice 2.0 is designed for high school and college students. Storytelling Alice is designed for middle-school students. Storytelling Alice was created by Caitlin Kelleher as part of her doctoral work in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. You can download Storytelling Alice here. For details on the design, development and evaluation of Storytelling Alice, please see Caitlin's homepage.

Alice 2.2 now available!

Find out more about Alice 2.2, including tips, techniques and troubleshooting.

Download and Installation Instructions

Alice does not require "installation" in the same way that many other software applications do. All we really need is a place on the machine's hard drive to copy files. As a result, the installation of Alice should succeed on machines where others would fail.

PC-only instructions:

Download and extract the files within, as you would any other compressed (.zip) file. It will create an Alice folder within which you can run the Alice application (Alice.exe).

Mac-only instructions:

Download the appropriate version of Alice based on your computer configuration -- 10.4+ for operating systems running Tiger or Leopard, and 10.3 for operating systems running Panther.

If you are unsure which operating system you are running, you can check by clicking on the Apple icon located in upper-left corner of the screen and clicking "About This Mac." Your operating system version will be listed here.

After downloading Alice, double-click the disk image (.dmg) to mount the Alice volume. Open the Alice volume (it should open automatically) and drag the Alice app to your desktop. If the file gets copied successfully, you can drag the Alice volume to the trash.

Linux-only instructions (Thanks, Charles!):

Alice needs 250MB of free space.
Please have opengl drivers and a Java Runtime Environment(en/).

Download the file Alice-2.0.0.tar.gz.
Open a terminal to the directory where you downloaded the file.
Run the command: tar xvfz Alice-2.0.0.tar.gz then run: cd Alice/Required then run: ./run-alice

MD5/SHA1 Checksums:

[Windows]
     MD5: ebbdd350c93a9967abd2c75c5c156f47
     SHA1: 02ad7385d5769ecf73b555ac840540dbe4714d25
[10.4+]
     MD5: cd133b97b2ac871ffb9e22ccd67b49a1
     SHA1: f7192a9245faf13f75f6184e46d3bdd85c59f292
[10.3]
     MD5: b28888cf49ead38473e36577ea74b832
     SHA1: 9aa616ed6426110d4d722290457e932c05f611de
[Linux]
     MD5: 1a1eb35789ecf524f4a89df5d05e61c1
     SHA1: 6f494f27f61e4f08874426364c43df99e2f7f29a

Other versions of Alice

Alice 99

Alice 99 is the predecessor to Alice 2.0. Visit the the old Alice 99 website for more info.

Source code

Alice 2.0 source code is also available (2.2 source code should be up shortly):
PC Source Code
Mac/Linux Source Code

End User License Agreement

Alice License

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