23 January 2009

Programming Guide Chapter 1&2: Robots and Program Structure

Read Chapters 1&2 and Make Blog Entry (Due Wednesday, 28 Jan.)
  1. Read Chapter 1 and 2 from: Understanding LEGO Geometry from the Building Robots book
  2. Go to your Robotics Blog.
  3. Click ‘New Post’ – Title your post: “What is a Robot? What is a Program?
  4. Complete a well thought out entry that summarizes the chapters and answers the following questions:
  • How is a robot different from a toaster?
  • Why is program structure important? What are the steps the book suggest for your to follow if you are going to write a program?
Comment on a Blog Entry (Due Thursday, 29 Jan.)

Before the start of the next class (Wednesday, 29 Jan.) read another student's Chapter 1 blog and comment on it before the next class.
Use the blog comment rubric to self evaluate your comment.

Use this list to help determine whose blog you are to comment on:
  • Brandon Kunju Herrera comments on Hyoung Min Yoo
  • Tyler Dangerfield comments on Brandon Kunju Herrera
  • Kenny Jones comments on Tyler Dangerfield,
  • Nass Umardin comments on Kenny Jones
  • Hyoung Min Yoo comments on Nass Umardin

1 comment:

Steve said...

If you like the NXT robots, you should check out Botball at www.botball.org

Student Robotics Blogs

NXT Basics