Talk:Alice (software)

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[edit] Alice 3 release

Anyone have information about an expected release date for Alice 3 or any information pertaining to it?

There is a prospective release date of Marchish 2008. Development is expected to span anywhere from 18 to 24 months.--Mr Nemo 19:35, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The Alice Community is getting ready to expand the article. The above question will be answered as soon as I know myself.--Mr Nemo 19:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Storytelling

WHOA. I can't believe this hasn't been removed yet!

Most programming languages are designed around computation, whereas Alice is designed around "storytelling" and thus has greater appeal to female students.

Yeah, of course, because girls are bad at math and prefer to spend their time telling stories. Where was this written? Afghanistan? Geez. Xezlec 01:49, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Having looked at the citation, I see that the claim was made by the citation, not the Wikipedian. I'm modifying the article to be slightly more explicit about that. Xezlec 03:01, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not take a position on what motivates girls. Their website links to research articles on middle school female motivation. Without a counter cite, there is no reason that wikipedia should distance itself from the CMI position. If you want to dispute their claims you need counter cites (and most likely fairly specific ones). Moreover be careful of context here, the software is developed to address 3 core areas... That is you are essentially dispute why the software developers wanted to develop the software by shifting the evidence where you did. jbolden1517^Talk 03:11, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I changed the wording to reflect the intentions of the designers, which meant removing the condescending language. 24.161.49.138 03:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)