Blogging assignment

Today you are going to work on finishing your blogging assignment.  Remember that you first need to write an essay about what you did over Spring Break, post your essay on your blog, and then you need to reply to 2 of your classmates.  Once all of that has been accomplished you can send me an email with  a link to your blog and a list of the classmates whose blogs you commented on.  You should have no problems finishing this in class today, but if you don't get it completed the due date is Friday, Apr. 5th.

If you complete this assignment and you have vocab words that need to be posted to the wiki spaces page you may do that in class today.

Once you complete the above work and you have no missing assignments (you might want to check the board on the wall) you will have the following to work on.  This is a program that is called Alice.  Alice's function is to teach you how to think like a computer programmer thinks in an interactive world.  Your job, as the "programmer", is to create world's in which characters interact with each other using commands that you give to the program.  Unlike many computer programming languages where you must learn the language first (much like you would have to learn a new speaking language), Alice is an Object-Oriented Program (sometimes these are referred to as OOPs) - meaning that instead of learning a language you are going to be dragging and dropping with your mouse to manipulate the objects in the world you create.

What I would like for you to do is to open Alice (go to the Finder menu and choose Applications - you'll find it listed amongst the other Applications on the computer), and then start the tutorial (see image below).  To start the tutorial just click on the "Start the Tutorial" button.