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RE: Frustration with NXT-G 1.1
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It would seem RobotC and NXJ are about equal for the kinds of things I'm trying to do. Like many developers, I find coding without a full-featured IDE to be a bit painful.
(I know this means that I am trading convenience for deep language knowledge, but considering the number of third-party and corporate packages a, say, Java programmer is typically using, I don't think there's a reasonable alternative. However, discussing this would bring us very far off-topic ...)
Hassenplug's comparison page, for the record, was invaluable: http://www.teamhassenplug.org/NXT/NXTSoftware.html .)
The only issue with RobotC is the price--although it beats LabView; I'd need a number of licenses if everyone in our informal group was interested in messing about with the programming. On the bright side, that 30-day trial should allow us to compare RobotC and NXC and NXJ without any difficulty.
Thanks for the advice. Do any of you have practical experience with the differences between NXC and RobotC?
It just seems very unreasonable to me that NXT-G, even at 1.1 is so buggy. It would take only minor improvements to make it nearly flawless. Grrr.
-----Original message-----
From: "Dick Swan" dickswan@...
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59:22 -0700
To: lego-robotics@...
Subject: RE: Frustration with NXT-G 1.1
> There's a couple of descriptions of alternative programming environments on
> the web that you might want to look at. Check out the following:
> http://www.teamhassenplug.org/NXT/NXTSoftware.html or
> http://www.botmag.com/articles/10-31-07_NXT.shtml
>
> I wrote the second item which was published in Robot magazine. I'm one of
> the authors of ROBOTC. There's a nice review of ROBOTC on the WIRED magazine
> site at http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/11/the-best-progra.html. This
> article is titled "The Best Programming Language for Lego Mindstorms, Hands
> Down".
>
> ROBOTC is inexpensive commercial software available directly from LEGO
> Education or via download from the Robotics Academy at Carnegie-Mellon
> University at www.robotc.net. A full featured 30-day evaluation copy can be
> downloaded. There are a number of open source programming alternatives that
> are described in the first two references.
--Doug Wilcox
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(I know this means that I am trading convenience for deep language knowledge, but considering the number of third-party and corporate packages a, say, Java programmer is typically using, I don't think there's a reasonable alternative. However, discussing this would bring us very far off-topic ...)
Hassenplug's comparison page, for the record, was invaluable: http://www.teamhassenplug.org/NXT/NXTSoftware.html .)
The only issue with RobotC is the price--although it beats LabView; I'd need a number of licenses if everyone in our informal group was interested in messing about with the programming. On the bright side, that 30-day trial should allow us to compare RobotC and NXC and NXJ without any difficulty.
Thanks for the advice. Do any of you have practical experience with the differences between NXC and RobotC?
It just seems very unreasonable to me that NXT-G, even at 1.1 is so buggy. It would take only minor improvements to make it nearly flawless. Grrr.
-----Original message-----
From: "Dick Swan" dickswan@...
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59:22 -0700
To: lego-robotics@...
Subject: RE: Frustration with NXT-G 1.1
> There's a couple of descriptions of alternative programming environments on
> the web that you might want to look at. Check out the following:
> http://www.teamhassenplug.org/NXT/NXTSoftware.html or
> http://www.botmag.com/articles/10-31-07_NXT.shtml
>
> I wrote the second item which was published in Robot magazine. I'm one of
> the authors of ROBOTC. There's a nice review of ROBOTC on the WIRED magazine
> site at http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/11/the-best-progra.html. This
> article is titled "The Best Programming Language for Lego Mindstorms, Hands
> Down".
>
> ROBOTC is inexpensive commercial software available directly from LEGO
> Education or via download from the Robotics Academy at Carnegie-Mellon
> University at www.robotc.net. A full featured 30-day evaluation copy can be
> downloaded. There are a number of open source programming alternatives that
> are described in the first two references.
--Doug Wilcox
WordSmith Digital Document Services
329 Nowell Street
Nashua, NH 03060-4453
*** ***
603-886-5225 home phone
http://www.wordsmithdigital.com
ICQ#: 24868783
AIM: WebMeister Doug
Y!: WebMeisterDoug
MSM: WebMeister Doug
- Web design
- Desktop Publishing - Design
- Computer/Software Consulting (Technical Wizardry)
- Computer Demons Exorcised
- Officially Registered in Dogbert's New Ruling Class
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