Teaching ROBOTC for LEGO Mindstorms
This multimedia curriculum that includes over 45 short videos, over 300 pages of documentation, 20 classroom programming challenges, and quizzes to check student’s understanding is designed to take new programmers and lead them step by step into the world of C-programming. ROBOTC is recognized as the best programming language to program the NXT. ROBOTC uses an industry standard C programming language and is the language that all teachers should use in their classrooms. The programming training tool is divided into five sections:

• Setup – students will build their robot, learn what firmware is, and download the firmware to their robots.
  
• Fundamentals – students will learn the role of the programmer, how the robot sees the world, and what syntax is.
  
• Movement – students will begin to program their robots to solve the Labyrinth Challenge. They will learn how to control their robot’s direction and speed autonomously.
  
• Sensing – students will learn how robots use feedback from sensors to interpret the world around them. Students are challenged to write a program that lets their robots complete the Obstacle Course autonomously.
  
• Variables – students learn how to store values by using variables, the will perform calculations on the variables to derive other important values, they will use variables to count, and create functions that they will be able to use over and over.