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Re: Programming Languages
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:41:01 GMT
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I can only speak from experience about programming languages that use the
standard firmware, since that's all I've used.
*Spirit.OCX (I've used VB and J++): The worst way to program in the standard
firmware. non-intuitive syntax (even if you replace the numbers with
variable
names). lot's of ugly periods hanging around. I only learned/used this
when I
was making VB programs for all of the robots in my book and putting them
onto
the CD-ROM. Other than that I never use it. I'm sure some of the GUI
interfaces that people have made for use with the Spirit are pretty good,
but I
haven't checked them out for more than a minute each.
*RCX Code: Graphical. OCX dependency. The easiest way to write a
quick-and-dirty sequential, simple-multitasking, and simple looping kinds of
programs. Not good for much else. Good for kids with low motor
skills/attention span. No variables (yet) besides a simple counter.
*NQC: There are some things that you can do with NQC that you can't do with
ROBOLAB (I'm not sure exactly what - maybe someone else can elaborate).
Good
if you're already used to C. I first learned NQC when I translated all of
Dave's programs for his first book into ROBOLAB for his CD-ROM (check 'em
out,
I included jpg's too). It took me a week, and it wasn't a pleasant
experience
because I find ROBOLAB much more intuitive.
*ROBOLAB: Graphical, like a flowchart. Written in LabVIEW. No OCX
dependency.
The best standard firmware solution in my _biased_ opinion. There are
things
that you can do with ROBOLAB that you can't do with NQC (in an
out-of-the-box
sense): Internet Communication, Graphing, Calculations on Data, Turn
programs
into Web pages, etc. Very intuitive.
For non-standard-firmware languages, there is YBL (yellow brick logo) from
the
media lab, legOS, pbForth, ... ??
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| I've written a document summarizing all the options available for Linux that is available here: (URL) ignores Spirit.OCX and RoboLab, since they are windows only, but to the best of my knowledge covers every other programming interface that is (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Programming Languages
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| From the Pitsco-Dacta online catalog, the current version of ROBOLAB ver 2.0 is W90051 and is called 'ROBOLAB Investigator'. It includes the Programmer software (which I hope is the full version). It costs US$59.00. But the catalog material is sort (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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