The use of the toy LEGO Mindstorms has been used more o f e n in Engineering and Computer Sciences courses in several countries. Undergraduate students at Texas A&.M LlniversilyCorpus Christi implemented seven robotics applications as the final project for the Software Analysis and Design course. The students applied the knowledge acquired in other courses such as Sofware Engineering, Databases. and several programming courses. The students used Microsof Project for the planning phase and the CASE tool Visible Analyst f o r the design phase. A t the end ojthe semester there was a robot competilion. Two projects are described in this paper IndexTerms -Leg0 Mindstroms, Microsof Project, Software Engineering, Visible Analyst

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The study of programming languages is beneficial to all levels of programmers. The first part of this paper reviews some of the reasons for studying programming languages. To isolate some of the issues of language design, definition, and implementation, mini-languages have been used in Programming Languages courses. Mini-languages are small and complete, yet restricted languages. They have a small syntax and simple semantics. Mini-languages and their compilers are being successfully used as a basis for a Programming Languages course.