{"id":538,"date":"2007-05-29T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T22:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=538"},"modified":"2007-05-29T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T22:08:31","slug":"software-tools-whoa-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/05\/software-tools-whoa-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE &#038; TOOLS: Whoa, Alice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span> bit bored with Kitty, though I&#8217;m determined to work my way through the program (<a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch<\/a>) and try everything out and come out with a complete project, I went back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice.org\/\">Alice<\/a> site and that looks like a lot more fun and the figures are indeed a lot more professional than what is offered by Scratch.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Alice appears to incorporate some of the things I&#8217;ve seen in Storytron: if X happens, then Z will do Y.&nbsp; Though it&#8217;s not on such an elaborate level as Storytron, whose main purpose is to create multiple possibilities in narrative style, the Alice demo did show how it works to keep a skater from falling into a hole in the ice (the environment, or background).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m not sure that I have any real interest in creating animation or getting a job in the field (hah!), it is a fascinating process to get my hands dirty while learning something just for the fun of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span> bit bored with Kitty, though I&#8217;m determined to work my way through the program (Scratch) and try everything out and come out with a complete project, I went back to the Alice site and that looks like a lot more fun and the figures are indeed a lot more professional than what is offered [&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-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}