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Personal Robots: Newest CS1 Teaching Tool

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Georgia Tech Associate Professor and former IPRE director Tucker Balch, left, advises a student as she programs the Scrambler robot, foreground. Credit: Gary Meek / Georgia Tech

By Paul Hyman

July 23, 2010

The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has developed a curriculum, software, and plug-in board for an off-the-shelf personal robot that it hopes will make computer science more tantalizing to undergraduates.

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