Aww, sorry Steph!  That's too bad.  I would definitely run the program and
video it, and at least that will give them a skeleton to rewrite the
program.  They  will still have to refigure rotations and such, but you'll
be surprised what they remember!  Our kids have rewritten a program from
scratch, and I am always surprised at how much they remember!

Good luck!
Sonya


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Stuart & Lori Roll <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>  Allow me to clarify other's responses.
>
> When you build your program in the NXT-G software, you are making a
> "source" program that includes the icons, their arrangement on the grid,
> their values, comments and all the other parts of what you think of as your
> program.
>
> When you download it to the NXT, the NXT-G software "compiles" your source
> program into something known as "object code".  This is a rewriting of your
> program into thousands of little instructions telling the hardware what to
> do.  If you use another NXT software program, such as Robo-C, the source
> code will look wildly different even if the object code does the same
> operations.
>
> While the NXT allows you to upload a program from the brick back onto your
> computer, this is only the object code.  The object code can be downloaded
> onto any brick and it will run just fine, but you cannot "decompile"
> the object code to recreate your source program.
>
> This is why any experienced coach will recommend that all programs be
> backed up after all practices.  We usually just copy them onto a thumb drive
> into a separate directory named for the date of the practice.  This also
> lets you recover programs that were accidentally deleted.
>
> Sorry for the bad news but hopefully others will have learned from this
> email thread.
>
> Stuart
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stephanie Z. Wilson <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>  My students lost a program from the computer, but still have it on the
>>> robot.  We haven't been able to load it back on the computer for further
>>> work.  Can anyone help?
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephanie Wilson
>>> Gifted Resource Specialist
>>> North Fork Middle  School  477-2953
>>> Stonewall Jackson High School  477-2732
>>>
>>> "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly
>>> you are doing the impossible. "
>>> ~St. Francis of Assisi
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