Beginners Books

This page is dedicated to those who are just learning to program. We want to help you get started. We suggest you begin by checking out our educational YouTube videos on our Education Page. They assume you have no programming experience, so throw away your fears and jump right in. After viewing the videos you may feel ready to proceed on your own. If so, the RobotBASIC HELP FILE may be all you need.

We also have created a short PDF TUTORIAL that can be especially helpful for those new to RobotBASIC or even those new to programming.

Most of our books are also available from Amazon.com as ebooks, and can be read on your PC using Amazon's FREE Kindle-for-PC.

If you would like more help, we recommend our two beginner's books for learning programming fundamentals. Both books assume no programming experience. They start slow to keep things unintimidating, but as you gain knowledge they introduce concepts and principles that will help you grow as a programmer and prepare you for more complex books such as our Robot Programmer's Bonanza.

The two beginner's books have some minor projects in common and they do cover the same programming principles. They are totally different though, in the projects that are used to teach programming.

RobotBASIC Projects for Beginners is packed with interesting projects involving graphics and animation (you even write your own video game and a paint program) that make learning fun.

Robots in the Classroom utilizes a similar approach, but most of the projects involve learning how to program a robot. No hardware is required, as everything can be accomplished using the RobotBASIC simulator. Everything you learn can be applied to real robots.

We think these books are perfect for self-study or for use in almost any introductory programming class. They also make a great gift to get your children and/or grandchildren interested in programming.

If there are things you, as a beginning programmer, need to help you learn, please let us know. We will try to add appropriate tutorials, new books, etc. as necessary. For now, here is more information about our introductory books.

Robots in the Classroom
Learn to Program with RobotBASIC
(No Robot Hardware Required)
John Blankenship and Samuel Mishal

See below for the full Table of Contents.

ORDERS: Purchase directly from Amazon.com

We also offer a NetBook Edition of Robots in the Classroom
with all the examples rewritten to run on the lower resolution
screens of many NetBook computers. Click HERE to purchase
the NetBook Edition of Robots in the Classroom from Amazon.
This edition of the book is used by CSTEM for it's Robotic
program (visit www.CSTEM.org for more information on CSTEM).

Schools and resellers needing quantity discounts may contact us directly.
 

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD for Robots in the Classroom.

Instructions: First, we must tell you that this book is designed to teach you programming and therefore the DOWNLOAD does NOT give you copies of every program in the book. If you are really going to learn programming, you MUST get involved by typing in the programs and tracking down errors you make in the process. The ARM and WALKING simulations ARE provided, in both standard and NetBook resolutions.

No real installation is necessary. Download the ZIP file below and store it anywhere on your harddrive. Unzip the file (typically RIGHT-CLICK and choose EXTRACT FILES) to produce the final folder holding the programs as well as a copy of RobotBASIC. It is suggested that you create a DeskTop short-cut to RobotBASIC to make it easy to run.

RobotBASIC Projects For Beginners

Learn to program through a fun-filled exploration of computer graphics,
robotics, physics, mathematics, animation, and simulation.
John Blankenship and Samuel Mishal

Click below for a complete PDF Table of Contents.
 

ORDERS:

Schools and resellers needing quantity discounts may contact us directly.

Email: RobotBASIC@yahoo.com

The book is available on Amazon. Purchase Book (from Amazon.com)

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD for RobotBASIC Projects for Beginners.

Instructions: First, we must tell you that this book is designed to teach you programming and therefore the DOWNLOAD does NOT give you copies of every program in the book. If you are really going to learn programming, you MUST get involved by typing in the programs and tracking down errors you make in the process. Some of the larger programs ARE provided. Running these programs before you start reading the book can be very motivational because they will show you what you are going to learn.

No real installation is necessary. Download the ZIP file below and store it anywhere on your hard drive. Unzip the file (typically RIGHT-CLICK and choose EXTRACT FILES) to produce the final folder holding the programs as well as a copy of RobotBASIC. It is suggested that you create a DeskTop short-cut to RobotBASIC to make it easy to run.