Research Article

The Experience of the Robot Programming Network Initiative

Table 1

General characteristics of the courses. The column "Students" represents the total number of students inscribed in the course from the start of the course to 2017.

CourseProgramming languageSimulatorReal robotStudentsLevelAvailableOrganized course

The Turtle RobotPython2DNo200BeginnerYesYes
Introduction to Mobile RobotsPython2DNo60BeginnerYesYes
Mobile Robots 3D with WebotsBlockly3DNo20MediumNoNo
Introduction to Humanoid RobotsPython-Yes10AdvancedNoYes
Mobile Robots with the ConstructPython3DNo30MediumNoNo