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RE: intro and question
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 16 Jun 2002 21:02:25 GMT
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Bill Blackmer <BILL@BBCCD.nospamORG>
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Hello Laura,
For ease-of-use and easy-to-learn I would rethink the Robolab decision.
Robolab 2.5 does support the USB tower and its highest levels has some
very powerful language capabilities. In Robolab 2.5 under
""Investigator Palette for Compute Tools 5"" there are submenus for
Array, cluster, string, and comparison. Also the connections to Labview
and P-code. The language is graphics based and easy to explain and ease
to follow. I could send you four or five links to Robolab documentation
that I have gathered and others have provided to me over the years.
I have found very few things that Robolab can not do. My only current
problem is keeping track of communications between multiple RCX devices
thought the USB port for a specific issue.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Laura O'Grady [mailto:l.ogrady@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 10:42 AM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: intro and question
Hello everyone!
I have been semi-lurking on the list for a few months, with the
occasional post. I have only recently gotten into Mindstorms and wanted
to ask about moving on to another language to program the RCX with. I
have no programming skills whatsoever so I am requesting the sage advice
of the list on which direction I should go.
I have done a bit of research and was able to find a demo version of
ROBOLAB. This version works only with a serial IR and I have the USB
version. Plus I really didn't think the interface was all that great so
I deleted it.
So now I am considering purchasing either "Dave Baum's Definitive Guide
to LEGO Mindstorms" to learn NQC or "Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming:
Unleash
the Power of the Java Platform" by Brian Bagnall to learn JAVA. I just
ran a quick search and found this interesting article called
"Ada/Mindstorms 3.0: A Computational Environment for Introductory
Robotics and Programming" (found at
http://www.faginfamily.net/barry/Papers/IEEERA.htm). In this article
the author advises that NQC is difficult for the novice programmer to
learn and use.
So now I am concerned about going the NQC route. Maybe I should try
this Ada/Mindstorms software. Any thoughts? Also what is the
relationship between RcxCC and NQC? Thanks.
Laura
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