Robot Wars (Mike LeSauvage)

Overview I created Robot Wars as a capstone lab for Applied Computer Programming, a new C-based second-year university course I created and taught. I developed it with LEGO Mindstorms robots being used for lab work as I believed that would be more engaging than having students code yet another Fibonacci sequence. It also had the benefit of giving them exposure to the nuances of interacting with physical hardware. The robots had their OS replaced with BrickOS so they could execute custom programs written in C. Labs work had interesting challenges, such as reading in a giant (8) bar code, but my...