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Re:Learning to Program the Arduino by bri3d on Thursday April 12, 2012 @10:18AM (#3832368)
I think your best options are LeJOS (Java for Mindstorms) or the Sun SPOT ( http://www.sunspotworld.com/ ). Both are a bit pricier than the (already overpriced) Arduino, but the Sun SPOT is a lot more powerful computationally.
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Re:Learning to Program the Arduino by robomartin on Friday April 13, 2012 @02:32PM (#3838158)
Sun SPOT sounds really interesting, thanks.

We have Mindstorms and have switched to RobotC from CMU rather than using the graphical programming approach. That works well enough. It seems that all middle and high-school programs that do Mindstorms stay with the graphical programming approach which is a shame because it makes doing anything serious very difficult.

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