This is preferred due to some included functionality in Java 8 and is required for Alice 3.4 and beyond.
We highly recommend that you use Java 8 if you are going to use Alice and NetBeans. To run NetBeans you will also need the Java 8 JDK. We have successfully installed and used our plug-in on NetBeans versions up to 10 but please let us know if you have any problems. Please visit their site to find download and installation instructions for the NetBeans IDE. We have also created lessons and exercises to take advantage of a more mediated transfer approach to learning that replicates projects in Alice in Java code applying the learning from Alice into intro Java exercises and back again.Īpache NetBeans is free and open source and is governed by the Apache Software Foundation. This allows you to load saved worlds developed in the Alice 3 platform and continue to modify them directly in the Java code. The Alice team has created a NetBeans library that allows you to develop or extend Alice worlds directly in the NetBeans environment. NetBeans is a modular development environment that is primarily intended to be used to develop Java applications.
