Get Ready For The Robotics Revolution
Learn the Basics Properly
How about arithmetic? Do you need to be able to add, subtract, multiply, or divide by hand? Remember how to do square roots? (gotcha!) Why learn — we have simple electronic devices to do that — and more accurately. Back to the original question. Knowing how to run a manual shift is required only if …
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Here, I’m talking about high level languages — not “machine languages” (binary numbers that interact directly with a computer) or even “assembly languages” (one-step removed, with mnemonics replacing the actual numbers.) Dealing with the low level languages is somewhat like reading those legal notices in the newspaper. Doable, but who has the time and/or the ability …
Almost all of the programming taught involves two-dimensions. The simulated sensor inputs, collision of objects, etc. can be complex, but it’s trivial compared to actual happenings in the real (3D) world. Dealing with a moving robot, even just avoiding only stationary objects, is very difficult, especially if the third dimension is relevant. (Much easier if the …
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If you search for “learn computer programming” you’ll get about 124 million hits. If you add “for kids” to the search it reduces to 23 million. My point is that there is no shortage of tutorials & methods available to learn any of the several thousand computer languages. All of them (that I found — didn’t …
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How will it play out? My crystal ball is broken, so I can’t say — but we (and our kids) can learn enough basic things so that we can be ready for “whatever”. In one sense, robots of any type will create opportunities for activities such as sales, marketing, financing, etc. — that’s no different …
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