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Re: First Lego League Software
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:43:52 GMT
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mattdm@SPAMCAKEmattdm.org
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J G Gregory <jgg@ultranet.com> wrote:
But I don't expect they will open up FLL to non-LEGO software.  And I
wouldn't recommend it anyway, not for 9-14 year olds.

Why not? I was writing BASIC programs when I was in that age bracket, and
I'm sure lots of other people were too. NQC isn't much harder, if at all.



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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn862e08.vrj.....bu.edu... (...) Well, I worked with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, after school, and with limited computer resources, and believe me, we barely could get time to deal with RCX (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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I agree that it is a problem. In fact, I didn't know Robolab could use variables. So it was unfair, though not hugely so. This is something FLL needs to address, because the lack of variables is really a big flaw, and very hard to explain to the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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