Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible.

Because social robots have a body, humans react to them differently than we do to a computer screen ... with a social robot shows students how difficult it is to program robots to mimic human ...

Chinese hardware start-up Makeblock aims to help students build robots and learn to write computer programs in ... their robots by writing a simple program, which the company believes will help ...

Then he excitedly points to the projected screen ... of students swiftly copying his codes onto their new websites. Zheng, a fifth-year computer science student, only started programming two ...

The toy that teaches programming has been updated ... provide additional context about what the robot is doing to help kids troubleshoot their code that’s controlling it. Other improvements ...

“Other players in the programming ... which use code and words to teach programming. This instead is a video game and in its nature more engaging and less obviously teaches computer science ...

Technology Director Justin Cowen used the money to purchase two mini-robots. Students ... see what that code does,” Cowen said. “Instead of having to run it on a computer screen, they ...

MIT’s Scratch programming language gives students a playground to figure out how computers use logic, with many exercises involving solving puzzles and mazes with code. However, I also know that ...