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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 21:37:14 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Dakin wrote:
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The kids on my team are 4th and 5th
graders and NQC would be too much for all but one or two of them.
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None of the 4th and 5th grade students I have had an opportunity to know would
find NQC to be too much for them. I’m curious how you came to the conclusion
that it would be “too much” for the kids on your team to understand or use.
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Here’s an example of how to do nested loops:
I’ve shown the inner loop on a slightly lower horizontal line.
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Could you send me a copy of the LASM generated by Robolab based on your example
above? Your example is the very first I have seen after extensive searching on
the internet that suggests that you are allowed to nest loops in Robolab. Just
now I found one other example using Ultimate Robolab with nested loops (but I
don’t know if that example is specific to Ultimate Robolab or not).
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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.
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The same absolutely could be said for the lines of code in my NQC version. It
might have taken me 30 second at most to write it. It would take a child with
typing skills about the same amount of time. What would make you say that the
kids on your team could not write that code in under 5 minutes using NQC?
John Hansen
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | 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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