Year 4 ICT: Human robots

We had great fun this week programming our very own human robots. First, we designed our own programming language. For example, instead of ‘Right’, we wrote RT and for ‘Forward’, we wrote ‘FW’. This saved time when writing our programs.

We then wrote our programs, debugging (fixing problems) and thinking of ways to simplify them as we went by using repetition in our sequences. Some of us even moved on to use conditional commands such as IF, THEN and UNTIL. 

By the end of the lesson, we had completed various coding missions including 'Create a dance routine' and 'Fetch objects and move them'.

Why not try getting your own human robot to dance with this piece of code we wrote:

LT leg UP 20cm

LT leg DOWN 

ROTATE HEAD 90 CW

RPT 4

RT leg UP 20cm

RT leg DOWN

ROTATE HEAD 90 CCW

RPT 4

THEN

LT arm UP UNTIL STOP

LT arm DOWN

RPT 4

RT arm UP UNTIL STOP

RT arm DOWN

ROTATE 90 CCW

TILT HEAD 10 RT

TILT HEAD 10 LT

RPT 8

RPT UNTIL MUSIC STOPS