Alice

   Alice was a project that I really struggled with.  While I relish the thought of creating a game to engage students educationally in a fun way, I found the components very confusing.  I am obviously not used to thinking in the way of a programmer.  I can see where Alice would be a good start to learning a programming language.  Having a son who is a computer science major and has studied a various programming languages, I now have an entirely new appreciation for his education.  While I would like to learn more on this subject and maybe work a little more with Alice, I think having more time to learn about how the program works would be beneficial.  The program that I created is a very simple game for children who are learning their color words.  Students are asked to click on a certain colored block.  When they succeed they are complimented on their work and a treasure chest appears.  Ideally this game would extend to multiple colors and the treasure chest would open at the end to reveal a message.  This would involve quite a bit more time than I had available for this project and exploration of a semesters worth of tutorials.