

The best robotics platform for beginners is no doubt the Lego Mindstorms system and indeed this platform has been the most popular robotics teaching system for many years. A key characteristic of robots and sensors is that their behaviour is somewhat unpredictable and dealing with this reality adds another dimension to the programming experience. Also, programming robots teaches you new and useful skills for you learn about how programs can interact with the real world via motors and various sensors. According to Microsoft, Small Basic 'i s the only text-based programming language + tool that's made for kids'.Īnother way to make programming fun is to make programs for robots, for everyone loves robots. Small Basic is probably the simplest, easiest and most fun textual programming language, for it's possible to create fun games with this language. Note that Small Basic (and therefore also EV3 Basic) runs only on Windows PCs.

Microsoft Small Basic puts the "fun" back into computer programming. Recognising this problem, Microsoft created in 2008 a new, simplified version of the well-known programming language, BASIC, called Small Basic. Nowadays people starting to learn programming are likely to experience more frustration than fun. Decades ago computer programming languages were rather simple and easy to learn, but over the years these languages have evolved and become much more complex and hard to learn. or will they? What IS a certainty is that computer programming skills are very valuable in today's high tech world.

Everyone knows that computers and robots will soon run the world.
