00 : Introduction

Visual programming involves creating and modifying programs with the help of drag-and-drop graphical icons in the user interface. The advantage of visual programming is that user need not remember syntax or constructs of the programming language. This manual introduces a visual programming application, Minibloq, (http://blog.minibloq.org/) with which we will learn to program an Electric Ray Robot. Electric Ray is an educational robot, which is designed for beginners to get started with robot programming.

Task to complete: Download Minibloq from here. Extract the folder and open the file miniBloq.exe. Your start up screen should look as below.