Douglas Harms
ABSTRACT
Personal robots, where each student has access to her/his own robot to use both in and out of class, are becoming popular platforms to use in CS1 courses. The Myro API developed by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) is a Python-based API and curriculum used at many colleges and universities. This paper describes the author's implementation of the Myro API in Java.
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