Robotics as a Component of a General Education Course
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We describe a robotics assignment for a General Education course. This assignment is part of an Introduction to Computer Technology course designed for the General Education requirements at The College of Staten Island. The goal for this assignment was to acquaint students with basic robotics while satisfying the course goals of algorithmic thinking, limitations of computers, problem solving, and debugging
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تاریخ انتشار 2008