My high school competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Every year we have to teach new members basic robotics and programming concepts, to get them excited and prepared for the heat of competition. Those who have the patience stay with it and have a great time, but we always lose a bunch of people partly because the lessons are not very interesting or useful. I believe the solution is to teach with small robots, instead of just writing on the board and doing "hello world"-type programs.
Vern, I was very inspired by your PyCon talk on teaching programming with the Scribbler. I know people have had success with it, it looks like a great robot to teach with. For our budget however, getting a bunch of these would be a stretch (I think the scribbler + fluke board combo costs $140 -- is this correct?). You do need the Fluke board unless you want to program it in BASIC Stamp or their GUI, right? I've seen some cheaper mini-robots but I'm not sure if they're any good. Does anyone have suggestions? Thanks, Blake Elias _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
