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Re: Materials for a robotics class of 30

I started on the BoeBot platform when I was in highschool, and I feel that PBASIC was a horrible language to learn to program on. I spent too much time working around the shortcomings of the language (if-> goto, negative numbers, etc), and was therefore unable to spend my time on more important things. Additionally, it left me with a few awful programming patterns that bit me later in other languages. Unless BoeBot has replaced PBASIC, I strongly recommend against it.

Any of the languages that currently ship in FIRST related programs would make a good start point. I particularly like what the guys at Intelitek have done with EasyC, and I'd be remiss if I failed to plug LabVIEW Education Edition*.


* Note: In the spirit of full disclosure, I work at NI in the LVEE group.