Hour of Code: Build Your Robot World in Java

Want to learn how to code? Get hands-on fun and immersive experience driving a simulated robot while mastering Java basics, using variables, methods, loops, and random numbers.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Control a robot in a maze using Java methods like setDirection and maze.turn
Organize robot maze code using Java classes and methods
Create variables to store object references for robots and maze elements
Build a labyrinth by adding walls and multiple robots using object-oriented commands
Generate random integers to drive robot movement and direction changes
Use for-loops to repeat robot actions and program a 20-turn random wander
Animate multiple Wanderer robots with loops and random commands to create a robot ecosystem

Learning Roadmap

5 Lessons

Robots and code

Building the labyrinth: variables and objects

Wanderer: random numbers

Loopy wanderer: loops

Bonus challenge: robot ecosystem

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ABOUT THIS COURSE

Learn the basics of coding while driving a simulated robot through a maze. By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to use variables, use Java commands called methods, generate random numbers, and use coding constructs, loops, to instruct the computer to solve repetitive tasks.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Devin Balkcom

Devin Balkcom is a professor in the Computer Science department at Dartmouth college; his primary research area is robotics. Balkcom designed and teaches Dartmouth's CS 1 course, and co-wrote the Khan Academy Algorithms Tutorials with Tom Cormen.

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