Video tutorials

Seven short videos showing the site and the simulator, from a first look to running a competition for a whole class. Together they run about fifteen minutes. Nothing here needs an account, and you can follow along in the simulator in another tab.

1. A tour of BugBot: every button on the screen Where the lessons, the tasks and the competitions live, and what each control in a lesson does. 3:10 2. Your first BugBot program: Python that drives a robot The two lines every program starts with, and changing a number to change what the robot does. 1:18 3. Sensors and debugging in the BugBot simulator Reading the distance sensor, printing to the console, and working out why a program did the wrong thing. 2:03 4. How BugBot tasks are checked What the simulator looks at when it marks a task, and what to do when it says not yet. 1:50 5. Hidden tools in the BugBot editor The reference, the replay, full screen, the text size and the rest of the cell menu. 1:49 6. Program a robot in Python in your browser, free, nothing to install The full IDE: writing your own program from scratch, outside a lesson. 1:33 7. BugBot class competitions: run one on the projector Hosting a race on the big screen, students joining with a code, and the class points table. 2:50

Watch the whole playlist on YouTube

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Start here

If you are new and want one video, watch the tour. It is the only one that covers the whole site rather than one part of it.

Then read How it all works, which is the same ground in writing, with live panels you can type into.