Sunday, March 12, 2006

Alice: corrupting the youth

I wish I could remember which PyCon delegate told me about Alice. It's a graphical environment for programming animations in a very kid-friendly fashion, yet full of solid, object-oriented programming goodness. This generation's LOGO, I suppose.

I was hoping it would fire our nine-year-old's interest in computers. I think it's working; Star Wars: Battlefront never produced such delighted shrieks and giggles. Maybe it works too well. He refused dessert to spend the extra couple minutes with Alice. Choosing code over food - I always thought of that as late-stage geekery.

Cheer: Alice works hard to be girl-friendly. Boo: Not available for Linux.

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