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We are in the process of producing a range of eductional materials to teach robotics to a variety of audiences using the LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System. We briefly review the programming environments currently available, and consider how appropriate they are for each of our candidate audiences. There is the usual trade-off between ease of use and power. It is suggested that no single programming environment is suitable for all audiences. Instead, aprogression of environments from microworlds, through graphical programming environments, to textual languages seems to provide the best way to develop our teaching.
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Hirst, A.J., Johnson, J., Petre, M. et al. What is the best programming environment/language for teaching robotics using Lego Mindstorms?. Artif Life Robotics 7, 124–131 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481160
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