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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming
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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

by Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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The programming perspective

From the programming perspective, GoPiGo3 allows you to start easy by learning a visual programming language, Bloxter, a fork of the open source Google Blockly, that was specifically developed for GoPiGo3. This is a very comfortable prerequisite when it comes to learning about the basic concepts of writing software programs.

But if you are reading this book, we are sure you already know how to program in one of the many available languages, that is, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Dexter Industries provides various open source libraries (https://github.com/DexterInd/GoPiGo3/tree/master/Software) that you can use to program GoPiGo3. Some of them are as follows:

  • C
  • C#
  • Go
  • Java
  • Node.js (JavaScript)
  • Python
  • Scratch ...
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ISBN: 9781838551308