Learning Computing With Robots

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The complete text, Learning Computing With Robots, is now available as a PDF. This version is from January 16, 2008. Individual Chapters can be downloaded by clicking on links below. The materials are all in draft form and are under constant revision.

Chapter 1: The World of Robots PDF
Chapter 2 Personal Robots PDF
Chapter 3 Building Brains PDF
Chapter 4 Sensing From Within PDF
Chapter 5 Sensing The World PDF
Chapter 6 Insect-like Behaviors PDF
Chapter 7 Control Paradigms PDF
Chapter 8 Sights & Sounds PDF
Chapter 9 Robot Vision PDF
Chapter 10 Artificial Intelligence PDF
Chapter 11 Computing & Computation PDF

The materials below have been superceded by the ones above. These below are here only for tracking. These curricular materials are for being used by the students of Georgia Institute of Technology and Bryn Mawr College in CS1, Spring and Fall 2007. These materials are developed by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE).

A PDF was made of the following chapters on March 23, 2007: http://myro.roboteducation.org/docs/myro-book.pdf

Chapter 1 The World of Robots
Chapter 2 Robots: Personal or Otherwise
Chapter 3 Building Brains
Chapter 4 Sensing the World
Chapter 5 Making Decisions
Chapter 6 Behaviors
Chapter 7 Control Paradigms
Chapter 7.5 Manipulating Pictures and Robot Vision
Chapter 8 Making Music
Chapter 9 Communication
Chapter 10 Computing & Computation
Chapter 11 Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 12 Applications of Robots
Appendix Resources, references, and other items
Notes for Myro version 2
More Robots

Teaching Assistants Schedule

Bryn Mawr College

Doug Blank (dblank): Monday 2-3, Tuesday 4-5, Wednesday 2-3, Thursday 4-5
Ashley Gavin (agavin): Monday 1130am - 1pm, Wednesday 1130am - 1pm
Mansi Gupta (mgupta): Tuesday 4pm - 6pm; Friday 2pm-4pm
Marwa Muhammad (mmuhamad): Thursday 9pm - 10pm
Priscy Pais (ppais): Monday 3pm - 5:30pm; Wednesday 12/05 3:30pm - 5:00pm; Friday 1pm - 2pm
Shikha Prashad (sprashad): Monday 11am - 1pm; Tuesday 4pm - 6pm; Thursday 9pm - 11pm; Friday 2pm-4pm
Natasha Eilbert (neilbert@myro.roboteducation.org) for Spring 2008:
- In Office (Room 251) M W 12:30pm - 2:30pm; T Th 2pm - 4pm; F 10am - 12pm (come by if you have any questions!)