alice-teacher Variables

[Rikki Fletcher]

I use the same explanation for Alice students as for regular programming
students.
Variables are named storage in RAM.
As the program runs, it writes values to RAM, and as it needs the values
it reads them.  I use rectangles to represent memory location.

It helps them understand why variable names of the same type must be unique.

> I am having a hard time explaining to one of my students EXACTLY what a
> variable is and I told him to refer to the book but it made it more
> confusing for him. So could somebody please give me a simple yet concise
> answer?
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> Prem Pathuri
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