Реализация визуальных средств программирования роботов для изучения информатики в школах

Abstract

Today in russian schools Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kit is used for teaching informatics. This kit allows to assemble and program robots, with motors and sensors to communicate with outside world. However, to be able to efficiently use such kits in informatics lessons, environments for programming them are needed, and pupils who did not program at all before shall be able to use them. In this article requirements for visual programming environments for robots in schools are formulated, review of existing environments intended to use with Lego Mindstorms NXT is given, and new such tool – QReal:Robots – is presented.