Alice
I learned some very interesting things about programming and making games/animated videos from Alice. Granted, Alice is only buy a taste of what true programming is like. The drag and drop steps are much easier than having to type out the actual commands. Alice to me, is like if I were to make an outline of a paper, Alice would be the part that writes out the rest of paper that I made an outline for, making everything simple. However, more than anything Alice taught me some of the aspects that it takes to make a game. For example, camera angles are very important when making a game. Because though your characters may be an action in the right corner of “the world”, if the camera is stuck in the same place as the beginning, then the player/viewer might never see the scene or actions. It was also interesting to see how walking isn’t a one step action on Alice, you have to do several commands in order for a character to be able to walk.
All in all, I think Alice is a great opening to programming. It’s easy to used and gives the user an idea of what programming is like.
