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waiting, repeating, and other programming techniques
The previous chapter taught you how to program your robot to perform a variety of actions, such as moving. In this chapter, you’ll learn several programming techniques that will allow you to do more with the blocks you used earlier, including how to pause a program with Wait blocks, how to repeat a set of actions with Loop blocks, how to run multiple blocks simultaneously, and even how to make your own so-called My Blocks.
the wait block
So far you’ve been using three different programming blocks to make the robot move, play sounds, or display something on its screen. Now you’ll meet a block that does nothing more than pause the program for a given amount of time. This block is the Wait block ...
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