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Grape – Graphical Robot Programming for Beginners

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Research and Education in Robotics — EUROBOT 2008 (EUROBOT 2008)

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Abstract

Using robot kits for education in schools and universities, we found that there is a lack in tools for teaching the structures of an object oriented programming language. Thus, we decided to develop a graphical programming environment for the beginner, using procedural concepts together with given objects.

The described tool is able to produce C++ code from the graphical user input. So, the mapping between a flow chart and the syntax of the programming language is directly visualized. Additionally, the environment can easily be extended by the user to use additional C++ classes or to create code for different controllers or PC processors.

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Enderle, S. (2009). Grape – Graphical Robot Programming for Beginners. In: Gottscheber, A., Enderle, S., Obdrzalek, D. (eds) Research and Education in Robotics — EUROBOT 2008. EUROBOT 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03558-6_17

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