Introduction to Programming
Tutorial Videos from Carnegie Mellon
Working solo or with a partner, work through the tutorial videos, available at the link above. Answer the "Check Your Understanding" questions below each video and make sure that you feel comfortable with the information before moving on. Please ask Mr. Jaeger if you're confused or need additional explanations.
There are 4 essential videos:
There are additional resources below the questions on each page. Feel free to explore those if you have additional time.
ROBOTC Exercise
After you have completed the four essential videos click on the link above and complete all eight exercises.
Working solo or with a partner, work through the tutorial videos, available at the link above. Answer the "Check Your Understanding" questions below each video and make sure that you feel comfortable with the information before moving on. Please ask Mr. Jaeger if you're confused or need additional explanations.
There are 4 essential videos:
- Programmer and Machine: Introduces new programmers to how they need to think to translate ideas into a language that a machine can understand
- Planning and Behaviors: Introduces the new programmer to the idea of robot behaviors. Also includes reference PDFs: Behaviors, Pseudocode and Flowcharts and Thinking About Programming
- ROBOTC Rules Part 1: Introduces students to C programming syntax and how ROBOTC uses color to indicate reserved words. Also includes reference PDFs: Whitespace and Reserved Words
- ROBOTC Rules Part 2: Continues to teach students about syntax, comments and error messages. Also includes reference PDFs: Comments, ROBOTC Error Messages, and ROBOTC Rules.
There are additional resources below the questions on each page. Feel free to explore those if you have additional time.
ROBOTC Exercise
After you have completed the four essential videos click on the link above and complete all eight exercises.