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Re: Robolab as a tool for teaching programming
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:42:09 GMT
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Juergen Stuber <JUERGEN@JSTUBER.nomorespamNET>
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Hi Steve,
"Steve Dakin" <lugnet@qmate.com> writes:
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> Here's an example of how to do nested loops:
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> <<http://haciendarobotics.com/nestedloops.jpg>>
all the programs you have are well-structured, not spaghetti-code
as one would expect for flowcharts at least some of the time.
I.e. loops and conditions are properly nested, there are no jumps
to some completely different place.
Is this structure enforced by Robolab?
> I've shown the inner loop on a slightly lower horizontal
> line. This took me about a minute to write and the kids on
> my team could also write this in less than five
> minutes. The same could not be said for the lines of code
> in your NQC version.
Maybe a good introduction to programming would be to start graphical
and when they have mastered the ideas behind it translate it to text,
in all your examples the translation would be straightforward
and one-to-one.
Jürgen
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| (...) I do not believe Robolab enforces any structure aside from a sequence of connected icons. It is up to the programmer to position things nicely in order to show structure. Robolab does have tools to align icons and wires. The programs on (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robolab as a tool for teaching programming
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| John, You make some good points regarding Robolab but I'll confess at the outset here that I'm a big fan of Robolab. After having used Robolab with my FLL teams the past two years I can say that it is a powerful tool that works well for teaching (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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