Our work with the Fischertechnik robotics kits used Robo Pro, a very nice visual programing environment.
For our first efforts with actual text based programming, we will have a look at the language Python. You can click through here to visit Python.org.
Non essential trivia - Why was this language named Python? A clue is that the command line shell (not quite an actual IDE (Integrated Development Environment)) is named IDLE.
