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Re: Is anyone using Java+RCX in their intro CS teaching?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.java
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Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:33:04 GMT
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Yes, I will be using Java and the RCX in a course at Berkeley this fall.
I used NQC last spring, but switched to java to use an OO language, get more
space total memory and in particular more space for variables. And because a
couple of my students were interested enough to master LeJOS and program a
robot that won the Sun Lego Mindstormes Java challange last spring.
You can find the course description at http://www.ieor/courses/ieor140.html
In lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, David J. Barnes writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Traffic is a little light in this group, so I thought I would see if any
> of its readers is doing anything with Java and the RCX in a particular
> area of interest that I have. There is quite a lot of intro Java
> teaching (including mine) that is concerned with simulating
> moving-things with AWT/Swing graphics - robots, turtles, ships, etc.. I
> am quite interested in looking at the ways in which using the RCX as a
> vehicle for actually teaching Java might affect the way in which Java
> material is taught on an intro course. For instance, it seems to me that
> programming most naturally with sensors will quickly tend to lead to an
> event-driven style of programming - similar to programming GUI-based
> applications - rather than the more traditional sequential and iterative
> style. If anyone has any experience with using the RCX in this way, or
> simply if anyone is thinking of using RCX+Java on an intro programming
> course, and would like to share their thoughts with me, then I would be
> pleased to hear from them.
>
> David
> =====
> David J. Barnes (d.j.barnes@ukc.ac.uk)
> Lecturer in Computer Science
> http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/
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