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Guidelines for Flow Charts and Pseudocode

• Week 5 Day 1

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This Week

• Today
• Pseudocode / Flowchart guidelines
• Outline of Final Report Due
• Wednesday Lab Quiz
• Covers three hands-on labs
• Friday Flow Chart / Pseudo code Due
• Performance Review 3 Start when LED goes on,
  go up ramp, encounter and go around an obstacle

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General Guidelines

• List the actions that the main program is going
  to execute and consider
• General flow of logic
• Decisions to be made
• How to provide any needed input to the robot when
  preparing to start robot
• List variables that you will use and identify
  which would be "global" variables (if you know)

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General Guidelines

• List the movements and actions that the robot
  must do to accomplish tasks drive straight
  (forward and backward), turn left 90 degrees,
  turn right 90 degrees, raise arm, pick up bottle,
  lower arm, let go of bottle, encounter obstacle,
  etc.
• Will these movements and actions be your
  functions? Will they be a combination of your
  functions and ic functions?

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Guidelines for Functions

• List the functions that your team will write
• What are the ic functions that will be used in
  your teams functions?
• What types of input will your functions need?
• What type of output will your function provide?
• Review last Wednesdays lecture on Writing Robot
  Code