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Learn › Glossary › non-blocking

What does non-blocking mean?

A function that returns at once and lets the effect carry on in the background, such as forward with no distance. The program must keep looking and deciding.

Also written as: non-blocking call

Learn it

  • Taught in 1.1 Your first move Driving, Robot club

Used in

  • 5.1 The loop
  • U1.1 Sense, decide, act
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