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 >>> ------------------------------ >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit >>> https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or >>> leave the list". >>> VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ADMIN-L. Visit >>> https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html to subscribe. >> >> >> ------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave > the list". > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ADMIN-L. Visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html to subscribe. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ADMIN-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html to subscribe.