Tutorials for NXT-G and RoboLab

This is the primary source for the NXT Tutorial and the RoboLab Tutorial if you would like to install them on a CD, USB Flash Drive, hard drive, or your own web server. These tutorials are free for any application.

The Tutorials require Mac OS X or Windows 98 or later. In addition, you must have Shockwave 10.1.3 or later installed on the computer. Shockwave is a free download available here.

NXT Tutorial

This tutorial is meant to be a complete introduction to the NXT graphical programming language (NXT-G). We use it in our classes and after school activities to get students up to speed at their own pace. It is used world wide by FLL teams, students, and teachers. This tutorial will be continually enhanced over the coming months as we find out what works and what doesn’t. Let Dale Yocum know what you think.

If you want to just check out the NXT Tutorial, ORTOP (the Oregon FLL partner) has published the NXT Tutorial on their web at www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial . However, please don’t use that site for high volume applications, like a classroom. In any event, you’ll get better performance by downloading your own copy.

Before downloading this tutorial, read these VITAL installation instructions.

Download NXT Tutorial (ver 1.16, 3/19/07, 75MB)

RoboLab Tutorial

This tutorial has been refined over the course of six years. It provides a great introduction to the RoboLab language in a step by step way and has been used by thousands of students. We won’t be doing any further development of it now that we’ve switched to the NXT system. It was written for RoboLab 2.5 but will probably be helpful to those using later versions as well.

Read the Install Instructions before downloading.

Download the RoboLab Tutorial (ver 3.01, 70MB zip).