While NXT-G provides a colorful and user-friendly approach to programming NXT robots, some people prefer programming
with a text-based language, which involves writing lines of code rather than dragging and dropping code blocks. There are a
variety of unofficial text-based languages for the NXT freely available on the Internet. Generally speaking, these program-
ming languages offer greater control but can be more difficult to learn.
I’ll introduce four important text-based programming languages for the NXT in this chapter—NBC, NXC, leJOS NXJ,
and RobotC—and then I’ll briefly discuss a powerful (and ...
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