Programming

Programming a robot is different from programming a screen. The robot lives in a world of uneven floors, flat batteries and sunlight through the classroom window, so the code has to read sensors, make a decision and correct itself many times a second.

This section starts with block editors such as Scratch and Microsoft MakeCode and works toward typed languages like Python and Arduino C++. Older training sheets that used to sit at this address are long gone; these notes are written fresh and aimed at the kits schools actually use today.

1. Read one sensor and print it. Every project gets easier once students can see the raw numbers.
2. Make one decision. If the reading is above a threshold, do one thing; otherwise, do another.
3. Loop and tune. Run it, watch it, change one number, run it again.