Best platform to learn ROS for beginners??

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Best platform to learn ROS for beginners??

tanmayj2020 opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Mithi Sevilla · Answer 1 · Tue May 26 2020 03:10:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @tanmayj2020,

I started learning ROS by watching Youtube videos and also reading their official documentation.
I've also tried ROS Ignite Academy free trial by the Construct Sim and it's really good, if you have some money to spare I highly recommend it. https://www.theconstructsim.com/

I haven't checked it out but you might want to look at edX free course on ROS as well.. https://www.edx.org/course/hello-real-world-with-ros-robot-operating-system

Tanmay Jain · Answer 2 · Tue May 26 2020 16:31:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanx for the response .
I just want to ask is Udacity Nanodegree Robotics beginner friendly course ?? I have read your medium article about it

Mithi Sevilla · Answer 3 · Tue May 26 2020 20:09:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@tanmayj2020 I don't recommend it. It's expensive and not worth the price. If you have some money to spare, I recommend https://www.theconstructsim.com/

Tanmay Jain · Answer 4 · Wed May 27 2020 10:44:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanx @mithi for replying😁
I’m a college student working in the field of autonomous mobility. For the past few days, I’ve been following your work and was inspired by your passion in robotics

I’d be highly obliged if we could discuss more about your ongoing research !

Tanmay Jain · Answer 5 · Thu May 28 2020 02:03:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Actually TheConstruct is too expensive for our team . We are working for developing a complete state of art self driving car and i am a member of software architecture department.
Are there any other alternatives?

Brian Bingham · Answer 6 · Thu May 28 2020 02:28:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is a very interesting discussion. May I ask a clarifying question - when you mention the best "platform" are you referring to

The hardware/software foundation such as installing on a host, using docker, using a virtual machine or using the cloud (the Construct framework or Udacity's virtual desktop or
The actual lessons, tutorials, assignments, etc. to help you learn ROS?

I see these as two separate issues. I am an instructor and very interested in 1. above. Ideally three would be an open-source recipe for a virtual environment (Ubuntu + ROS + Gazebo) that folks could use to learn ROS.

Would anyone be interested in doing some work on 1? In particular, I'd be interested in seeing if we can reproduce Udacity's virtual desktop. Removing the cost barrier of Udacity or the Construct would be a great educational contribution.

Tanmay Jain · Answer 7 · Thu May 28 2020 10:16:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes I am interested..
There are no platforms where beginners can ROS either free or at low cost
@bsb808 is there any way I can contact you?