Development of Hands-on Teaching Materials for Programming Learning with Robotics Invention System

在信息教育中，众所周知，许多学生感到很难获得编程技能。原因之一是，他们可能不容易将源代码与只能在显示器上检查的执行相关联。这种传统的编程风格缺乏“真实的体验”。在这项研究中，动手机器人的做法，介绍了在日本技术学院的新生在编程学习。实验分为两组，轮流进行半学期的实验。实践包括三个阶段：机器人构建，基本编程和数据采集编程。在实践中设置了三个阶段，学习机器人机构，基本算法和数据采集。精心安排练习，让初学者学习基本的编程算法。学生手册也是新编写的。在每个阶段通过问卷调查他们对内容的理解程度。实验结果表明，学生的理解程度大大提高，超过一半的学生能够理解所有的算法。我们相信，目前的实践经验将有助于他们学习其他语言，如C++或JAVA。

In information education, it is well known that many students feel difficulty to acquire programming skills. The one of the reason is that it might not be easy for them to relate source codes to their execution that could be examined only on the display. Such traditional programming style is lacking in 'real experience'. In this study, hands-on robotics practice was introduced for freshmen in programming learning at a Japanese college of Technology. The class was divided into two groups and the practice in a half of semester was repeated by turns. The practice consisted of three stages: robot construction, basic programming, and data acquisition programming. Three stages were set in the practice to learn a robotic mechanism, a basic algorithm, and data acquisition. Exercises were carefully arranged for beginners to learn basic programming algorithms. Student manuals were also newly prepared. How well they understood the contents was investigated by questionnaire at each stage. The result showed that the degree of understanding was greatly advanced as more than a half of the students could understand all the algorithms. We believe that experiences in the present practice would be helpful when they learn other language like C++ or JAVA.