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The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming
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The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming

by Terry Griffin
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
13h 21m
English
No Starch Press
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NXT-G

The LEGO MINDSTORMS application is a graphical programming environment for writing programs for an NXT robot. It is called a programming environment because it contains all the tools you need to create a program for a robot. This type of application is often called an integrated development environment (or IDE for short). The MINDSTORMS IDE is considered a graphical programming environment because it allows you to create a program by drawing a picture instead of just typing text.

NXT-G is the programming language used by the MINDSTORMS environment. In NXT-G, the individual parts of a program are called blocks. There are blocks for controlling the motors, using the sensors, and many other things. You create a program by using the screen to ...

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