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cross-platform

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designed to program

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GEEK in Sydney, 8 May 2012 It is primarily developed by Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts group in the province of

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, and runs on

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, and experimentally on

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devices. Since 2013, the Enchanting version 0.2 has been available.

Technology

Its predecessor, the 1998 Robotics Invention System was developed by Scratch developer team led by Mitch Resnick at

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. Based on

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, which is developed by the

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, Berkeley, the current version of Enchanting runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (but not Windows 8 RT); on

it runs on version 10.4 and newer; and on Linux it runs on

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version 10.10.

Educational resources, use and events

It has been used in secondary-to-tertiary computer science program at

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in Australia, where an interactive PDF book for use on computer or iPad, titled ''Robotics with Enchanting and LEGO NXT'' is available for free download. Most recent ''SABRE Games'', organized in 2013 by Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts group, consisted of three disciplines: ''Tug Of War'', where two robots are tied together with a string and each tries to pull its opponent over the center line; ''Sumo'', where two robots are placed in a sumo ring and each tries to find and push its opponent out without going out of the ring itself; and ''Parade'', where robots follow a line trying not to crash into the robot in front.

References

External links

Home page
enchanting.robotclub.ab.ca,

''Robotics with Enchanting and LEGO NXT''
''A Project Based Introduction to Programming'',

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