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A Java implementation of the myro API for using personal robots in CS1

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Myro is popular Python-based API for controlling personal robots used in many CS1 courses around the world. This paper describes the author's implementation of the Myro API in Java.

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Blank, D. 2006. Robots Make Computer Science Personal. Communications of the ACM. 49, (Dec. 2006), 25--27.
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BlueJ - Teaching Java - Learning Java. http://www.bluej.org/. Accessed: 03-17-2011.
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Institute for Personal Robots in Education. http://www.roboteducation.org/. Accessed: 03-17-2011.
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Markham, S. A. and King, K. N. 2010. Using Personal Robots in CS1: Experiences, Outcomes, and Attitudinal Influences. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - ITiCSE'10 (2010), 204--208.

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    ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
    June 2011
    418 pages
    ISBN:9781450306973
    DOI:10.1145/1999747

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    1. cs1 curricula
    2. ipre
    3. java
    4. personal robots

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