Robots and Physical Computing

A recently released kickstarter project website  http://www.robotixedu.com/phiro.aspx  has quoted research from the University of Northampton. This is an interesting product designed to teach children programming . In essence programming robots is good way to develop problem-solving skills. The publication mentioned can be found at Robots in problem-solving and programming  (Scott J Turner, Gary Hill), In  Proceedings of 8th Annual Conference of the Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences , Higher Education Academy Information and Computer Sciences Centre, Ulster, pp. 82--85, 2007.  [paper] With example related paper : Problems first second and third  (Gary Hill, Scott J Turner), In  International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education (IJQAETE) , volume 3, pp. 88--109, 2014.  [paper] Robotics within the teaching of problem-solving  (Scott J Turner, Gary Hill), In  IT...