First, they are essentially different.
Robot programming education:
It is an educational way to run robots by assembling, building and writing programs to stimulate students' interest in learning and cultivate their comprehensive ability. It can be understood that robot programming education is to achieve the teaching purpose through some educational robots.
Robot programming can be regarded as a branch of children's programming application, which combines software and hardware on the basis of programming, and is more inclined to hardware and physics to cultivate children's practical ability.
Computer programming education for children;
According to different ages, children are taught programming languages in stages and systematically, starting with the cultivation of logical thinking and abstract thinking, then teaching children how to use "programming thinking", and finally solving practical problems with algorithm design. In addition to teaching children to write code, it is more important for them to learn to solve problems with "programming thinking".
Second, their learning direction and depth are different.
1, robot programming is to call programming module instructions to make the machine move. Usually, the module to be programmed has been written and stored in the module. What children do is to splice modules in different ways.
2. Children's programming learning pays more attention to exploring the essence of programming language, opening modules layer by layer, and learning the logic, algorithm, grammar and structure of the internal core of modules.
3. Depth: Advanced robots need a very solid programming foundation, such as C language and C++. However, most robot institutions only stay in primary education, which involves some graphical programming education at most, and do not teach these advanced programming languages, which is why they started to learn robots at the age of 3, and there is nothing to learn after the age of 8.
Their application scenarios are different.
Usage scenario:
1. The application scope of robot programming is limited to the robot itself. Once out of this robot, the programming knowledge that children have learned may be useless. There is a learning bottleneck in pure robot programming education, and the programming knowledge learned is based on the course content of robot hardware design.
2. Children's programming learning is a course that focuses on software project development and design, and some of it involves interaction with hardware, which is somewhat similar to robots, but there is no limit to the programming height. Children can systematically master various languages and have a wider range of choices.