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Have students program a robot to play a song to engage novices.

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  • It’s amazing how much time and focus students will put into programming a robot to beep out a tune.
  • A good progression is to next have robots do a dance, then have the robots do a dance and play a tune simultaneously.
  • See here for one approach with Scribbler 2 robots.

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  • Intro Programming
  • Meaningful and Relevant Content
  • C
  • Other Programming Language
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