The MyroC Project

MyroC Home Page

Descriptions, products, installation instructions, and other MyroC materials are available at the MyroC home page.

MyroC Project Scope

The MyroC project contains a wide range of Web pages, diagrams, images, C-based infrastructure, example programs, course materials, and supporting materials:

Approximate statistics for CSC 161 materials
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Course home directory:  /home/walker/public_html/courses/161.sp18

                          files   lines  characters
Web pages (html/shtml):    221    100111   2657706
                  labs:     44    19593    506190
              readings:     48    43474   1073703
Diagrams/images:           175      N/A       N/A
Course schedule:             2      349     20663
Supporting include files:   45     1126     36338
CSS style sheet:             1      332      6614
C programs:                343    24810    674269
C header files:              13    724     18886
MyroC header files           2     1120     51671
MyroC implementation files   9     5248    185536
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Totals:                    811   133820   3651683

Contributions to this Effort

To achieve a project of this magnitude, the hardware, software, readings, labs, and other materials from this course have evolved from many sources:

• The underlying hardware and some software for this course are based on research performed by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE), hosted at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College. Their materials, including software interfaces, reference materials, and hardware, were funded by grants from Microsoft Research and the National Science Foundation. (wording modified from suggestions by Douglas Blank of the IPRE project and Bryn Mawr College) The main pages for this work are:

  • http://roboteducation.org
  • http://wiki.roboteducation.org/

• The MyroC++ project grew out of efforts by Professor Bruce MacLennan's group, University of Tennessee; special thanks to John Hoare in that group for his assistance.

• The MyroC project was developed by Henry Walker and his groups at Grinnell College and funded from Grinnell's Dean's Office, Grinnell's HHMI Grant, and the Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthall Chair of Natural Science and Mathematics (held by Walker).

  Summer/Fall 2011	Fall 2013	Fall 2014	Fall 2015
  April O'Neill David Cowden Dilan Ustek Erik Opavsky	Spencer Liberto Dilan Ustek Jordan Yuan	Vasilisa Bashlovkina Anita DeWitt Jason Liu Nick Knoebber	Marija Ivica Sara Marku Thu Nguyen Ruth Wu

Peer-reviewed, Published Papers

• David Cowden, April O'Neill, Erik Opavsky, Dilan Ustek, and Henry M. Walker, "A C-based introductory course using robots", SIGCSE '12 Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February, 2012, pages 27-32.

• Dilan Ustek, Erik Opavsky, Henry M. Walker, and David Cowden, "Course development through student-faculty collaboration: a case study", ITiCSE '14 Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Innovation & Technology in Computer Science Education, June, 2014, pages 189-194.

• Vasilisa Bashlovkina, Anita DeWitt, Anqing Liu, Nicolas Knoebber, and Henry M. Walker, "A refined C-based infrastructure and curriculum to support robots in introductory CS", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 30 Issue 5, May 2015, pages 136-143 .

• Marija Ivica, Sara Marku, Thu Nguyen, Ruth Wu, and Henry M. Walker, "Student-faculty collaboration in developing and testing infrastructure for a C-based course using robots", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 32 Issue 1, October 2016, pages 57-64.