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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

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was developed by Scratch developer team led by

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at MIT Media Lab. 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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