Unit 1: Software Engineering

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After a brief introduction to programming concepts, this unit focuses on the importance of abstraction and modularity for managing complexity. General principles are developed in the context of state machines, with tangible applications in controlling the behaviors of a mobile robot.

Diagram of sensor input, brain, and action.

Course topics, exercises and theme.
Topics	procedures, data structures, objects, state machines
Lab Exercises	implementing robot controllers as state machines
Abstraction and Modularity	Combinators Cascade: make new state machine (SM) by cascading two SMs Parallel: make new SM by running two SMs in parallel Select: combine two inputs to get one output
Theme	PCAP (Primitives, Combination, Abstraction, Patterns)

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