Chapter 1
Meeting the NXT-G Software
Let me introduce you to the LEGO MINDSTORMS programming software, NXT-G. Over the course of this book we are going to work closely with NXT-G to develop programs for your LEGO MINDSTORMS robot, so take some time to familiarize yourself with the NXT-G programming environment.
But before you do that, you need to understand what a “program” is. A program is a set of electronic instructions that are given to a computer to tell it what to do. In your case, the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT brick is your computer, and it needs to hear from you what you want it to do and how you want it to perform a task. Your program will give the NXT a list of instructions to follow that will tell it exactly how you want it to act and ...
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