The VS Code workflow for EV3 Python programming смотреть онлайн

(English and French subtitles are available.) UPDATE: EV3 Python version 2 was released after this video was made. It brings huge improvements – read about them on ev3python.com.

For several years it has been possible to use the free operating system ev3dev to run Python programs on the Lego EV3 robot, but the process was never particularly simple, especially for beginners. Beginning May 2018 the process has suddenly become much easier. An extension for the free, multi-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) code editor Microsoft Visual Studio Code makes the process as simple as: write, save and press F5. Pressing F5 downloads the script to the EV3 and runs it there. This video demonstrates how easy it is to write and run an EV3 Python script using this workflow but does NOT show how to set up your EV3 and computer - that is the subject of a separate video. You should watch THIS video first and then, if you're impressed, see the setup video at https://youtu.be/TNXqizQTZhs.

Please note that you should have a good mastery of the basics of Python before learning how to control robots with Python. This video will not teach you the basics of Python, but many free sites can help you with that, such as https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python

This video was made on a Windows machine but should be valid also for MacOS and Linux.

For more information see http://ev3python.com and http://ev3dev.org.

The clip of robots falling down in the DARPA competition comes from: https://youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo