{"id":222,"date":"2012-09-16T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-09-16T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:43:10","slug":"robots-make-cs1-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Robots Make CS1 Real."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague in the <a href = \"http:\/\/cs.bard.edu\">computer science program<\/a> at Bard, <a href = \"http:\/\/turing.bard.edu\/~sven\/\">Sven Anderson<\/a>, is teaching our introductory computing class. The course teaches object-oriented programming using the <a href = \"http:\/\/www.roboteducation.org\">IPRE robot platform<\/a> and <a href = \"http:\/\/www.python.org\">python<\/a>. And although robots are error-prone with their noisy sensors and motors, eat batteries, and make it difficult to grade student programs, few pedagogical approaches to CS1 can provoke the following reaction:<\/p>\n<p><img src = \"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dog.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Sven Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague in the computer science program at Bard, Sven Anderson, is teaching our introductory computing class. The course teaches object-oriented programming using the IPRE robot platform and python. And although robots are error-prone with their noisy sensors and motors, eat batteries, and make it difficult to grade student programs, few pedagogical approaches to CS1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/?p=222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robots Make CS1 Real.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.drablab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}