Teaching "C" to 2006 students??

[neilsonster]

That's funny, I was talking with someone on MSN about the potential of a program like this right before I saw this thread.

What I'm doing for the next year's programmers as a project is making an electrical board for a robot fully equipped with motors, encoders, a gyroscope, the camera, and pneumatics along with a reference manual to use as a guide to programming the robot and learning many problem-solving methods I used over the past season. I already had a "practice board" that I used to test code, but I was always modifying it for whatever I was working on at the moment.

It's not a robot simulator, but my goal with it is to have someone who hasn't programmed before be able to have something very hands-on to work with and pick up programming fairly easily.