As far as programming went, I MUCH preferred Jaroo to Alice. I found Alice to be overly complex for what it was trying to do, with too many unnecessary commands. It became more of a task to actually find what you needed than to actually work through the problem, something that wouldn't happen much, if at all, in Java, our end goal. Jaroo, on the other hand, was very straight forward, it gave a good graphical representation, helped with programming and, most importantly, was fun to work with. Compared to any other labs, I think they were the most enjoyable, next to making the game of Pong in Scratch (a program that I also liked). I think that for future versions of the class, a direct cut to Jaroo and on would probably be more advantageous to the learning process.