Graduation

By Zarah

Hey Room 24! As you all know, Graduation/Last day of School is coming up! :D I am truly VERY excited for Graduation because we get to be the people on the stage while the fourth graders will possibly be on the carpet! Also, the fourth graders will probably sing the song "Shooting Star" for the fifth graders!! :D I bet all the fifth graders are AS excited as me! Fifth graders: Are you happy that you will be moving to Middle School/What middle school are you going to? Fourth Graders: Are you guys ready to move into fifth grade?

  Nature

                                                                          By

                                                                    Cindy Lu

              Open the screen door. Step outside. Here birds sing. Here trees being blown in the wind.

Step on the grass. Feel the grass between your toes. Everything in this is nature. Ever since I started

going into the garden everyday, I've learned to enjoy everything that has to do with nature. Trees, flowers

grass ...... Name it. Even in the coldest days, nature gives you a fire to burn in your heart. There are 

plenty of nature things around my house to enjoy. If you ever thought deeply into nature, nature includes 

animals from the smallest ant to the largest animal ever known on earth. In my brain, to truly respect 

nature, is to not kill ants for fun, and chicken, pigs, cows, sheep, cattle, ducks,  fish, and seafood for 

food. Though I have to admit meat does taste good. Now I am mostly vegetarian. What is your favorite 

thing in nature? I am sure the whole class would like to know what you like.

Friday the 13^th

 

By Mandar

 

Friday the 13^th was always known as an unlucky day. People who are afraid the Friday 13^th suffer paraskavedekatriaphobia. 21 million American suffer this.  Some people don’t go to restaurants, while others don’t go to work, and some just stay in bed so they don’t have to face the day!  It has been estimated that $800 or $900 million dollars is lost in this day because they don’t go to work.

 

People who suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia most likely consider themselves unlucky. But did you wonder how Friday the 13^th got unlucky?  Well there are many reasons to this. In numerology 12 is considered completeness such as, 12 months equal a year however 13 is considered irregular. Another reason there have also been strange events on the Friday 13^th.  That also makes people afraid the Friday the 13^th. 13 and Friday was considered unlucky making Friday the 13^th unlucky. Why is 13 unlucky? Here is why 13 is considered unlucky.  The fear of 13^th goes back to ancient history about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked an uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Loki arranged Hoder, the blind god of darkness to shot Blader the beautiful, the god of joy and gladness with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.  Blader died and the earth got dark. It is a bad, unlucky day. From that day on 13 was considered unlucky.

 

Do you believe in Friday the 13^th?

 

Ranger’s Apprentice

By: Eric Wu


Hi room 24! Do any of you guys read Ranger’s Apprentice? I do! It is a really awesome book series about these people called “rangers” who defend the kingdom. They are kind of like a medieval FBI of CIA. They are a special police force sent to do missions for the king and to drive out or kill evil people. They each have a long bow (a re-curve bow if you are an apprentice), a throwing knife, and a saxe knife. One of the main characters is Halt who is a legendary ranger and another is Halt’s apprentice, Will, who eventually becomes a legendary ranger too. Will’s best friend, Horace, becomes a legendary knight (wow, all of them are legendary). These are only some of the main characters in the series. There are 10 books in the series. In the first one, Will saves Halt and kills these creatures who were thought to be extinct that tried to kill Halt. In the second book, Horace kills an evil person called Morgorath when they do a one-on-one duel (and Horace was only a knight apprentice!) In the third book… Well, you get the idea. I would recommend this series to anyone. Do any of you guys read Ranger’s Apprentice? If so, do you like it? If you don’t read it, will you try it out?

Mario- By Dyson

          The video game character Mario is a pudgy mustachioed plumber who always saves a woman, no matter who that woman is. I think some of you know Mario, right? Well, here are some things that you probably don’t know about him. Please allow me to tell you:

·         In the game Super Princess Peach, Mario, Luigi and Toad are captured and Princess Peach has to save them.

·         Mario’s power-ups are: hammer, mega mushroom, Tanuki suit, wing cap, feather cape, fire flower, ice flower, metal cap, invincible star, invincibility cap, invisibility cap, penguin suit, cloud mushroom, starman, super mushroom, Boo Mario, Spring Mario, propeller mushroom, 1-up mushroom, Hover FLUDD, Rocket FLUDD, Turbo FLUDD, and Spray FLUDD.

·         Princess Peach has a talking parasol named “Perry”.

·         Mario’s house is called Mario’s Pad.

·         Characters with big noses and hands and grass skirts are called “Pianta” which means “plant”.

·         Super Mario Sunshine is the hardest Mario game to come out in history.

·         In Super Mario RPG, Bowser joins Mario in an attempt to get his castle back after his army is destroyed.

·         Bowser has eight children: seven of them are the Koopalings, and his other son is Bowser Jr.

·         Bowser Jr. believed that Princess Peach was his mother.

·         The turtles are called Koopas, and they are one of the most loyal kinds to Bowser.

·         Super Mario RPG is like the only game where Bowser cries like a baby.

·         Yoshi is a non-playable character in Super Mario 63 since he appears once in the game.

·         Yoshi’s Power-ups are the dash pepper, blimp fruit, and bulb berry.

·         Yoshi raised Bowser from a baby.

·         Bowser could ground pound at age one.

·         Yoshi’s rival is a dinosaur named Boshi.

·         Mario’s enemies are Donkey Kong, Wario, and Bowser.

·         In Super Princess Peach, Princess Peach has infinite lives.

·         Mario originally was a carpenter.

·         Mario became a plumber after being a character that was underground for a long time.

·         Princess Peach used to be Mario’s girlfriend, Pauline, and then Princess Toadstool.

·         In Super Mario Defense, you have to defeat Mario and Luigi before they take over Bowser’s Castle.

·         Bowser has four generals: Goomba, Koopa, Kamek, and MagiKoopa.

·         Mario’s three aged friends are Toadsworth, Frogfucius, and Grandpa Penguin.

·         Fish, also known as Cheep Cheep, can usually hurt Mario.

·         In Super Luigi Galaxy, spinning underwater can greatly decrease Luigi’s air supply.

·         Luigi is younger than Mario.

·         The Poison Mushroom causes Mario to shrink or die.

·         Mario can stand on clouds.

Another thing I'd like to share is that Mario‘s brother Luigi is very clumsy. Although Luigi has saved Mario more than once, Luigi is usually the one in trouble besides Princess Peach.

I hope that you have learned something you didn’t know before about Mario. If you know something about Mario that I didn’t mention, please share.

Don’t Eat at Fast Food Restaurants!
                        By- Annie Pan

Pull open the glass door and feel the rush of cool air. Step inside. Look at the color pictures of food above the counter, look at the cardboard advertisement for the latest Disney movie, get in line, and place your order. Hand over some money. Put the change back in your pocket. Watch teenagers in blue-and-gold uniforms busy working in the kitchen. Moments later, grab the plastic tray with your food, find an empty table, and sit down. Unwrap the burger, squirt ketchup on the fries, stick the plastic straw through the hole in the lid of your drink. Pick up the burger and dig in.

The whole experience of eating at a fast-food restaurant has become so familiar, so routine, that we take it for granted. It has become just another habit, like brushing your teeth before bed. We do it without even thinking about it — and that’s the problem. The

food you eat enters your body and literally becomes part of you. It helps determine whether you’ll be short or tall, weak or strong, thin or fat. It helps determine whether you will enjoy a long, healthy life or die young. Food is of fundamental importance. So why is it that most people don’t think about fast food and don’t know much about it? The simple answer is this: the companies that sell fast food don’t want you to think about it. They don’t want you to know where it comes from and how it’s made. They just want you to buy it.

50% of kids are obese because of fast food. French fries at fast food restaurants have “partially hydrogenated” oils in them. Don’t let an advertisement guide you around. You are the one deciding if you are taking the hard way of living where you eat junk food and like a shorter and unhealthy life, or if you want to have a healthy life where you can live happy and longer with no problems. Eating fast food restaurants can cause serious diseases and cancer. They contain many calories in meals. Even one meal can really bother your health. That’s how unhealthy fast food restaurants have. And we should now stop eating it.

Just think about all the oil and fat you’ll be eating once you open a new bought bag of junk food. Does it tastes well? What does it taste like? It tastes good, right? Well, it might taste better than regular food. That’s because hey have flavors added to the food. It’s not real food. That’s why most foods are cheap. Even some expensive ones have artificial flavors in them. It’s not real! It may look real, but the real ingredient is this: Junk! Just save your money! Cook your own food would be much better! You don’t even need money to buy them!Many and most places have chemicals in food that make them look real, but they are actually fake. Don’t count places like subway as your choice of junk food. That’s healthy. You have the choice for many vegetables and healthy things. But the drink and bag of chips may not be very healthy. Some foods are rotten and were put into chemicals to make them look yummy. Eating fast food can really turn you into an obese person. 50% of kids are obese because of fast food. Just don’t do it the simple way if it’s just the bad things that will get into your body.

• Pack your own lunch at school. Hot lunch may have expired food
• At home, don’t go to any fast food restaurants you know that has bad food
• Eat less oils, meat, poultry, and sweets
• Stay healthy!

After this passage, I will probably think you will not eat any more fast food restaurants. Search on the internet, read books about it, or even look in the magazine about fast foods. At the library, check out the video called Food Inc. It tells all about how you need to stay healthy and all those bad food products at many fast food restaurants.

Q&A of the Blog: 

Do you eat a lot of junk food? If you ever ate any junk food, did it ever make you feel sick? Will you ever eat junk food again? Why or why not?

Northern Lights

by Aishwarya

Hi Room 24! Have you ever read about colorful skies in the night? They are called the ‘Northern lights’ or ‘Aurora Borealis’. They are natural lights in the sky during long dark periods of time near the equinoxes.

Northern Lights as the name suggests happen in the Polar Regions. They are caused due to charged solar wind particles collision with oxygen and nitrogen in the earth’s ionosphere in the presence of strong magnetic field at North Pole. They are typically red or green but sometimes are blue. I  t was discovered that Jupiter and Saturn also had Auroras. In Antarctica there are southern lights and they are called Aurora Australis. Next time you plan to visit Europe, Go to Norway to see the Northern Lights !

Can you share a natural wonder of the world?

           Phobias     

By: Aaron Ho

Are you scared of something? If you are, then you have phobia. A phobia is when you have a fear of something.  I have claustrophobia, that means I am scared of confined spaces or I feel uncomfortable when I am in a squeezed.  I also have acropobia. It means that I have a fear of heights. I do not like heights, they make me feel like I'm gonna fall down.  There are many phobia's out there, but the most common ones are:

Accidents- Dystychiphobia.Air- Anemophobia.
Air swallowing- Aerophobia.Airsickness - Aeronausiphobia. Alcohol- Methyphobia or Potophobia.
Alone (being) - Isolophobia.Amnesia- Amnesiphobia.Anger- Cholerophobia.
Animals- Zoophobia.Animals skins - Doraphobia.Ants- Myrmecophobia.
Atomic Explosions- Atomosophobia.Automobile (moving)- Ochophobia.Automobiles- Motorphobia.

Bacteria - Bacteriophobia.Bald people- Peladophobia.
Bald (becoming)- Phalacrophobia.Bathing- Ablutophobia. Beards- Pogonophobia.
Beautiful women- Caligynephobia.Beds - Clinophobia.Bees- Apiphobia or Melissophobia.
Blindness - Scotomaphobia. Blood- Hemophobia or Hemaphobia..Body odors- Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia.
Bogeyman - Bogyphobia.Books- Bibliophobia.Bound or tied up- Merinthophobia.
Bowel movements- Defecaloesiophobia.Brain disease- Meningitophobia.Bridges (crossing)- Gephyrophobia.
Bullets - Ballistophobia.Bums & beggars- Hobophobia.Burglars - Scelerophobia.
Buried alive - Taphephobia.

Cancer- Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia.
Car (riding) - Amaxophobia.Cats - Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Gatophobia, or FelinophobiaCemeteries- Coimetrophobia.
Chickens- Alektorophobia.Childbirth- Maleusiophobia or Lockiophobia.Children- Pedophobia.
Chinese - Sinophobia. Choking - Pnigophobia Church- Ecclesiophobia.
Clocks or time- Chronophobia.Clothing- Vestiphobia.Clowns- Coulrophobia.
Coitus- Coitophobia.Cold things- Frigophobia.Colors- Chromophobia
Comets- Cometophobia.Computers - Cyberphobia.Confined spaces- Claustrophobia.
Constipation- Coprastasophobia.Contamination - Molysmophobia Cooking- Mageirocophobia.
Corpses- Necrophobia.Criticism- Enissophobia.Crucifix- Staurophobia.
Crossing streets- Agyrophobia or Dromophobia. Crowds - Agoraphobia.

Dampness - Hygrophobia.
Dancing- Chorophobia.Dark place- Lygophobia.Darkness- Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia.
Dawn- Eosophobia.Daylight - Phengophobia.Dying - Thanatophobia.
Dead things- Necrophobia.Decaying matter- Seplophobia.Decisions - Decidophobia.
Defeat- Kakorrhaphiophobia.Deformed people - Teratophobia or Dysmorphophobia Demons- Demonophobia or Daemonophobia.
Dental surgery- Odontophobia.Dentists- Dentophobia.Diabetes- Diabetophobia.
Dining - Delpnophobia.Dirt - Molysmophobia.Dirty (being) - Automysophobia.
Disease- Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia.Dizziness - Illyngophobia..Dogs - Cynophobia.
Dolls- Pediophobia.Dreams- Oneirophobia.Drinking - Dipsophobia.
Drugs - Pharmacophobia.Dryness- Xerophobia.Dust- Amathophobia

Eating - Phagophobia.Electricity- Electrophobia.
Erection (losing)- Medomalacuphobia. Everything- Panophobia.
Eyes- Ommetaphobia Fainting- Asthenophobia.Fatigue- Kopophobia.
Feces- Scatophobia.Female genitals- Kolpophobia or Eurotophobia.Fever- Fibriphobia
Filth - Rhypophobia.Fire- Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia.Firearms- Hoplophobia.
Fish- Ichthyophobia.Floods- Antlophobia.Flowers - Anthrophobia.
Flying- Aerophobia, Aviophobia or Aviatophobia Fog- Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia.Food - Sitophobia
Foreigners - Xenophobia.Forests- Hylophobia. Forests (night)- Nyctohylophobia
Forgetfulness - Athazagoraphobia.France - Francophobia or Galiphobia.Friday the 13th- Paraskavedekatriaphobia.
Frogs- Batrachophobia.Frost - Cryophobia.Garlic- Alliumphobia.
Genitals - Kolpophobia or Eurotophobia.Germans - Germanophobia Germs - Misophobia
Ghosts - Spectrophobia.Girls - Parthenophobia.Glass - Crystallophobia.
God or gods- Zeusophobia..Gold- Aurophobia. Greek - Hellophobia.

Hair- TrichophobiaHalloween- Samhainophobia.
Handwriting- Graphophobia.Heart - Cardiophobia.Heat- Thermophobia.
Heaven- Ouranophobia or Uranophobia.Heights- Acrophobia.Hell- Hadephobia
Holy things- Hagiophobia.Home - Ecophobia.Homosexuality - Homophobia.
Horses- Equinophobia or Hippophobia. Hospitals- Nosocomephobia.Houses - Domatophobia.
Hurricanes- Lilapsophobia.Hypnotized - Hypnophobia.

Ice - Pagophobia.
Ignored (being)- Athazagoraphobia.Imperfection- Atelophobia.Infection- Molysomophobia.
Injections- Trypanophobia.Injury- Traumatophobia.Insanity- Dementophobia
Insects - Insectophobia.Itching- Acarophobia.

Japanese - Japanophobia.
Jealousy- Zelophobia.Jews- Judeophobia.Jumping - Catapedaphobia.

Kidney disease- Albuminurophobia.Kissing- Philemaphobia
Knowledge- Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia.

Lakes- Limnophobia.
Large things- Megalophobia.Laughter- Geliophobia.Lawsuits - Liticaphobia.
Learning- Sophophobia.Leprosy- LeprophobiaLice- Pediculophobia
Light- Photophobia.Lightning - BrontophobiaLiquids- Hygrophobia.
Locked in - Cleithrophobia Lockjaw - Tetanophobia.Loneliness - Eremophobia
Loud noises- Ligyrophobia.Love- Erotophobia. Love (falling in)- Philophobia.

Machines- Mechanophobia.Madness - Lyssophobia.
Marriage- Gamophobia.Meat- Carnophobia.Medicine (taking) - Pharmacophobia.
Medicines- Hydrargyophobia.Memories- Mnemophobia..Men- Hominophobia.
Menstruation- Menophobia.Metal- Metallophobia.Meteors- Meteorophobia.
Mice- Musophobia Mind- Psychophobia.Mirrors- Catoptrophobia.
Mobs - DemophobiaMoisture - Hygrophobia.Money- Chrometophobia
Moon - Selenophobia.Mother-in-law- Pentheraphobia.Moths- Mottephobia.
Motion - Kinetophobia Moving automobile - Ochophobia.Mushrooms - Mycophobia.
Music- Melophobia.Names- Nomatophobia.Narrowness- Anginophobia.
Needles- Aichmophobia or Belonephobia..Newness- Cainophobia.Night- Noctiphobia.
Noise - Acousticophobia.Nosebleeds- Epistaxiophobia.Novelty- Cainophobia or Cainotophobia.
Nuclear weapons- Nucleomituphobia.Nudity- Gymnophobia or Nudophobia.Number 13- Triskadekaphobia.
Numbers- Arithmophobia or Numerophobia.

Ocean - Thalassophobia.Odors - Olfactophobia.Old people- Gerontophobia.
Operation- Tomophobia. Opinions- Allodoxaphobia.

Pain- Algiophobia or Odynephobia.
Paper- Papyrophobia.Parasites- Parasitophobia.Parents-in-law- Soceraphobia.
People- Anthropophobia.Phobias- Phobophobia.
Pins- Enetophobia.Plants- Botonophobia.Pleasure- Hedonophobia.
Poetry- Metrophobia.Poison- Iophobia. Poisoned (being)- Toxiphobia
Politicians - Politicophobia.Pope- Papaphobia.Priests - Hierophobia.
Progress- Prosophobia.Property- Orthophobia.Prostitutes- Cypridophobia
Punishment - Mastigophobia... Puppets- Pupaphobia.

Rabies- Cynophobia.
Radiation- Radiophobia.Railroads- Siderodromophobia.Rain- Ombrophobia
Rape- Virginitiphobia.Rats- Zemmiphobia.Rectum - Rectophobia.
Relatives- Syngenesophobia.Religion- Theophobia.Religious ceremonies- Teleophobia.
Reptiles- Herpetophobia.Responsibility (neglecting)- Paralipophobia. Responsibility- Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia.
Ridiculed- CatagelophobiaRoad travel - Hodophobia.Rooms- Koinoniphobia.
Ruin- Atephobia.Running water- Potamophobia.Russians - Russophobia.

Sacred things- Hierophobia.Satan- Satanophobia.
Scabies- Scabiophobia.School- Scolionophobia.Scientific terminology- Hellenologophobia.
Scratches - Amychophobia.Sea - Thalassophobia.Semen- Spermatophobia
Sermons- Homilophobia.Shadows- Sciophobia Sin- Hamartophobia.
Sinning - Peccatophobia.Sitting- Cathisophobia Skin disease- Dermatosiophobia.
Skin lesions- Dermatophobia.Sleep- Somniphobia.Slime- Blennophobia
Smells- Olfactophobia.Smothered - Pnigerophobia.Snakes- Ophidiophobia
Snow- Chionophobia. Social activities- Social Phobia.Society - Sociophobia.
Solitude- Monophobia.Sounds- Acousticophobia.Sourness- Acerophobia.
Speaking- Laliophobia Speaking aloud- Phonophobia.Speaking in public- Glossophobia.
Specters - Spectrophobia.Speed- Tachophobia.Spiders- Arachnophobia.
Spirits- Pneumatiphobia.Stage fright- Topophobia. Stairs - Climacophobia.
Standing up- Stasiphobia.Stared at- Ophthalmophobia.Staying single- Anuptaphobia.
Stealing- Cleptophobia Step-father- Vitricophobia.Stepmother- Novercaphobia.
Stings- Linonophobia.Stories- Mythophobia.Strangers - Xenophobia.
Streets- Agyrophobia. Storm, thunder- Brontophobia. Suffering - Panthophobia.
Sun - Heliophobia.Sunshine - Phengophobia.Surgeon's fear of operating- Ergasiophobia.
Surgical operations- Tomophobia.Swallowing- Phagophobia.Syphillis -Syphilophobia.

Tapeworms- Taeniophobia.Taste- Geumaphobia or Geumophobia.
Technology- Technophobia.Teeth- Odontophobia. Telephones - Phonophobia or Telephonophobia.
Termites- Isopterophobia.Tests- Testophobia.Tetanus - Tetanophobia.
Theaters- Theatrophobia.Thinking- Phronemophobia.Thunder- Ceraunophobia.
Thunder - Astraphobia Tickled - Pteronophobia.Tied down- Merinthophobia.
Time - Chronophobia.Toads- Bufonophobia.Tombstones- Placophobia.
Tornadoes- Lilapsophobia.Touched (being) - AphenphosmphobiaTrains- Siderodromophobia.
Travel - Hodophobia.Trees- Dendrophobia.Trembling- Ttremophobia.
Trichinosis- Trichinophobia.

Ugliness- Cacophobia.
Undressing - Dishabillophobia.Urine or urinating- Urophobia.

Vaccination- Vaccinophobia.Vegetables- Lachanophobia.Venereal disease - Cypridophobia
Vertigo - Illyngophobia.Virginity (losing)- Primeisodophobia.Vomiting- Emetophobia.

Walking- AmbulophobiaWashing- Abultophobia.
Wasps- Spheksophobia. Water- Hydrophobia.Waves - Cymophobia .
Wax statues- Automatonophobia.Weakness- Asthenophobia. Wealth- Plutophobia.
Weight- Obesophobia Wet dreams- Oneirogmophobia.Whirlpools- Dinophobia.
Wild animals- Agrizoophobia.Wind- Ancraophobia Wine- Oenophobia.
Witches- Wiccaphobia. Women- Gynophobia.Women (pretty)- Venstraphobia.
Words- Logophobia Words (long)- Sesquipedalophobia.Work- Ergophobia
Worms- Scoleciphobia.Wrinkles (getting)- Rhytiphobia.Writing- Graphophobia.
Writing in public- Scriptophobia

X-rays - Radiophobia.

Please tell us what your phobia's are and why you have them. It's ok to be scared of somethings. There's nothing wrong with having some fears, so you can tell us what your fears are and we will not tease you.

Science Fair

By:Arjun

We all know that the world is now facing an energy crisis and everyone is trying to do something about that. Now electrical energy or electricity can be made from air and saltwater. After all, both the air and the saltwater are freely available everywhere.
Procedure: Set up a regular circuit with an electromagnet (iron core wrapped in a coil by a wire), switch, and battery. Replace the battery with a bowl of saltwater  and keep the ends of the wires which used to be on the battery hanging  above the salt water. See how many washers the electromagnet can pick. Once again replace the saltwater with the battery. See how many washers it can pick. COMPARE.
The concept is really confusing though later you get the hang of it. The same way that you burn wood and make heat energy, you should be able to burn metals and get electricity (or electrical energy). The difference is that you are not really burning instead, you are producing a condition for oxidization which by itself is the same as slow burning. If with one cup of salt water and some metals If I  could light up a small light bulb, maybe you can light up a entire building by a tank of salt water and a few hundred pounds of scrap metal. What did you write for your science topic? Why did you choose it?

Java

By: Dyson

Hi guys! Do you know about Java (not the coffee beans)? If not, I can explain. Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. Java is typically complied to byte code (class file) and is currently the most popular programming language. The project initiated in June 1991, and released Java 1.0 in 1995. The name changed from Oak to Green and finally to Java. Sun Microsystems promised for Java, “Write Once, Run Anywhere” or WORA. Java2 was released initially as J2SE 1.2 in December 1998-1999. There is also J2EE (enterprise application) and J2ME (mobile applications). Sun Microsystems renamed new J2 versions as Java EE, Java ME, and Java SE. Recently in 2009-2010, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems.

Java derives much of its syntax from C and C++. Java is used to make programs like games, websites and hyperlinks. You can use Java to program the computer and make it listen to every command you type.

What is your favorite programming system (like Scratch or Alice)? Please describe.

                                                                                                           

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