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Zach Dodds (Harvey Mudd College), Wynn Vonnegut (Harvey Mudd College)
Students are challenged to specify rules that will guide Picobot within its environment, which can be any of several grids of square cells. Picobot can sense the occupancy of neighboring cells to its N, E, W, and S. It can move to the N, E, W, or S -- or stay in place. Picobot also has the ability to remember a single number from 0 to 99: this number is called its "state." Picobot starts in state 0. The students' task is to create rules that guide Picobot to traverse every empty cell in its environment. ...
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A great introduction to the idea of state machines and computation in general. I threw this to AP computer science and intro to Python students (grades 9-12) who were ahead and they found it interesting and challenging.
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