{"id":2702,"date":"2013-08-17T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:12:07","slug":"how-to-write-efficient-nxt-g-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/how-to-write-efficient-nxt-g-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write efficient NXT-G programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-9.06.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3533\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-9.06.00-PM-210x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-08-16 at 9.06.00 PM\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-9.06.00-PM-210x300.png 210w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-9.06.00-PM.png 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Writing Efficient NXT-G Programs (PDF) describes how to make your NXT-G programs as efficient as possible to create complex behaviours with a minimum of memory. These techniques are particularly relevant for competitions such as FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and RoboCup Junior, in which competitors often download several complex programs onto a single NXT brick.<\/p>\n<p>The techniques include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximize free space<\/li>\n<li>Reuse code<\/li>\n<li>Loops and My Blocks<\/li>\n<li>Combine multiple programs<\/li>\n<li>Minimize use of Sound and Display blocks<\/li>\n<li>Use Numbers or Logic values instead of Text<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This document was prepared by National Instruments and the LEGO Group. (C) Copyright 2006. Version 1.1 (2006-09-27)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Writing-efficient-NXT-G-programs.pdf\">Writing efficient NXT-G programs<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Writing-efficient-NXT-G-programs.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Efficient NXT-G Programs (PDF) describes how to make your NXT-G programs as efficient as possible to create complex behaviours with a minimum of memory. These techniques are particularly relevant for competitions such as FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and RoboCup Junior, in which competitors often download several complex programs onto a single NXT brick. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,159],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14396,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/14396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}