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by bitnovus 1195 days ago
Lego Mindstorms (gen 1) was one of my first coding experiences and one in which I really started to learn about the power of state machines versus lists of instructions. It had intuitive drag-and-drop software pieces that mirrored the same hardware pieces IRL. Wish it still existed for kids today
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If you're referring to Robolab it was actually based on LABView under the hood. LABView is well known drag and drop programming interface built by National Instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms#Use_in_educati...

source: My robotics professor developed Robolab and we got tons of cool shit from LEGO

It does, I have it right here?