[Samathy]

Its really important to consider who the class is for when looking at how you enjoyed it.

You took the class already having 'lots of prior programming experience'. This class was clearly designed for people who have never programmed in their life. This class was not designed for you.

I was in the very same situation when being taught the basic programming concepts in Python at University, after having held software dev jobs and written assembly and C for several years.

Scratch, Alice and others are great starting tools for kids around 5 to 13 who have never programmed before. They're reasonable initial platforms to spend a couple of hours on for older people too (your age group and even upwards).

It might be worth talking to some of your peers who had never programmed and asking what they thought. Its super easy to forget than only a little while ago, you also knew nothing.

I do agree that the whole course should not have been modelled around Alice. At your age you could probably pick up the Python REPL quickly after an initial into to the concepts in Alice.