It’s one thing to take a walk. It’s another to follow someone else’s
instructions telling you where to walk! Today we’ll take turns writing
“code” for “robots” (kids and adults) to follow. Let’s see what funny
robot moves the coders have in store!
The Math Behind the Scenes: We’ve all seen robots, but what exactly is a robot? It’s a programmable
machine, meaning people write a set of instructions, or a program, that
tells it what to do. Robots only understand actions that are listed step
by step in specific “code,” which is a special set of words and symbols
that a computer can understand. You may have heard the term
“coding.” That’s another way of saying that you’re writing a program.