Welcome to a new year, and the new and improved ™ Page for Robotics!

There is information here for both parents and students.  If you are a parent, please click here (real soon now) to find out a bit about what we do, and how we do it.

Students… read on.

Announcements

This section is for new announcements and such  The latest three or four will be listed here, but you can click here (real soon now) for an archive of previous announcements.  Some of them are important, even.

• First Assignment – the first assignment is… um… assigned  There is a hard cap on the deadline for this, which will be Friday September 11.
• Materials – duotangs and loose leaf can be provided, but if you want a snazzy colour, or your own, customedesigned lined paper, feel free to bring it in. Your log books will be stored in class, and hardly ever brough home to be forgotten.  Or eaten by your cat.
• USB Sticks – All students should have one.  To backup their work in this, and other classes.  And to transfer work to and from school.  In robotics, this is particularly important, since programs can (and do) get corrupted, and can (and do) get erased or otherwise misplaced.  If you shop around, you can get one for under $10. 1 gig is plenty.

Assignments

A0. Cool Robot. Tell me about your idea of cool, as regards robots. What’s your favourite cool robot?

A1 – Direct Me! (pt.1). Programming a robot is as easy as 1-2-3-4-5.  Give it a try and make your robot do some very simple tasks.

A2 – Direct Me! (pt. 2). The opposite of Pt. 1; I give you the pseudocode, and you make your robot do it. Oh, and you learn a bit more about pseudocode.

A3 – Educating your Robot.  Moving on into the Robot Educator, the software you use to direct how your program operates.