Teaching Artificial Intelligence Using Lego

We present 12-years teaching experience on Artificial Intelligence using Lego RCX, NXT, and EV3 Robotics platforms for both undergraduate and graduate classes at Western Washington University. We present the curriculum design, methods used, and outcomes of this kind of teaching. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using Lego. We suggest using a systematic method to raise the quality of teaching computer science, particularly to address how to teach students to code their idea efficiently using our research methodology of flowcharting-to-code. We will address some of the current problems in our education system for computer science and present our future plan.