August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
13h 21m
English
You can use the newer MINDSTORMS software to load, edit, and run any programs you’ve written using the older software. When you open a program written with the older software, any blocks whose behavior has changed in NXT-G 2.0 will be marked with an exclamation point (!), as shown in Figure B-1. When you run your program, these blocks will work the same way they did with NXT-G 1.0/1.1. The MINDSTORMS software won’t automatically change the way your program works; for example, the Math blocks in your old programs won’t suddenly start using floating-point division. Changing your blocks automatically could break programs that used to work, which is generally considered a bad thing for a software upgrade to do. Instead of changing ...