{"id":530,"date":"2007-06-01T21:25:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T04:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=530"},"modified":"2007-06-01T21:25:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T04:25:59","slug":"software-tools-alice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/06\/software-tools-alice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE &#038; TOOLS: <em>Alice!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">O<\/span>ut of curiousity (and relative impatience with <em>Scratch<\/em>) I installed the <em>Alice<\/em> download.&nbsp; Watched a tutorial (I&#8217;m learning to learn!) and it really drew me in with its screen setup and professional looking production.&nbsp; The tutorial is wonderfully set up to encourage learning by allowing the user to interact&#8211;<em>Try moving the order around<\/em>, it says, and you can actually do it, overcoming the fear and getting the immediate satisfaction of working the program without having to just watch and try to remember what you saw.<\/p>\n<p>Guilt alone will encourage me to finish up in <em>Scratch<\/em> with something presentable at least&#8211;but anticipation of playing in <em>Alice <\/em>will encourage me to finish up in <em>Scratch<\/em> without bothering to make it something I need to be proud of producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">O<\/span>ut of curiousity (and relative impatience with Scratch) I installed the Alice download.&nbsp; Watched a tutorial (I&#8217;m learning to learn!) and it really drew me in with its screen setup and professional looking production.&nbsp; The tutorial is wonderfully set up to encourage learning by allowing the user to interact&#8211;Try moving the order around, it says, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}