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RE: Frustration with NXT-G 1.1
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Tue, 13 May 2008 16:55:39 GMT
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There's a couple of descriptions of alternative programming environments on
the web that you might want to look at. Check out the following:
http://www.teamhassenplug.org/NXT/NXTSoftware.html or
http://www.botmag.com/articles/10-31-07_NXT.shtml

I wrote the second item which was published in Robot magazine. I'm one of
the authors of ROBOTC. There's a nice review of ROBOTC on the WIRED magazine
site at http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/11/the-best-progra.html. This
article is titled "The Best Programming Language for Lego Mindstorms, Hands
Down".

ROBOTC is inexpensive commercial software available directly from LEGO
Education or via download from the Robotics Academy at Carnegie-Mellon
University at www.robotc.net. A full featured 30-day evaluation copy can be
downloaded. There are a number of open source programming alternatives that
are described in the first two references.



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  Frustration with NXT-G 1.1
 
It's been a LONG time since I've posted. I was thrilled when my wife presented me with an NXT for our anniversary, and have really enjoyed its capabilities. We migrated our MindStorms@Work group to use the NXT, and dug into NXT-G (since we already (...) (16 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.robotics)

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