The easiest way to learn how to program

[T.Jackson]

I'm learning an educational programming environment called "Alice" at the moment for uni. Alice allows you to build 3D programs by dragging & dropping items as apposed to written syntax. I think this is a fantastic way to learn object orientated programming. Alice is free and can be downloaded here; http://www.alice.org/ I think this is definitely the future of programming in many years to come.

[T.Jackson]

Sorry, make that "object based" programming.

[mackrackit]

From the web site

Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.

I think you were correct the first time.

This looks like fun. Might be the thing for one of my kids. Thanks!

[T.Jackson]

From the web site

I think you were correct the first time.

This looks like fun. Might be the thing for one of my kids. Thanks!

Definitely not bud. Strict rules apply for any language to be classified as object orientated. This includes having polymorphism and inheritance traits. Wikipedia confirms this. Alice is object based at best. OOP was a typo.

[T.Jackson]

Differences between the two: http://stason.org/TULARC/software/ob...nd-Object.html

Alice has taught me nothing about inheritance or polymorphism yet, but I'll keep at it (might be there somewhere)

[rhino]

This includes having polymorphism and inheritance traits.

FYI, I found this at alice.org -

Does Alice support polymorphism?
polymorphism

Unfortunately, Alice does not support this sort of functionality directly. There are a few ways around this, but they aren't nearly as elegant as the solution you're looking for. The first way to do this is to write a method external to the objects in the list (off of world) that takes an object as a parameter. If then go to any object's questions and scroll down to "other", you'll find the question called "object"'s part named "key". This question lets you any part on an object--whether it's there or not (it will throw an error if you try to reference a part that doesn't exist, so be aware of that when using it). You can then write a generalize method that takes in any given chicken and has it look for food. If you don't want to deal with the "part named" question, then the other option is to write a similar function but use if/else statements to determine which chicken is passed in.