I think that a game needs to accumulate a certain amount of ratings before it'll show up?

The typical standbys:
Inflatable soccer ball, Frisbees, Transformer-style toys, small racing cars, a small kite.

Toys that might be suited for more introspective kids:
An origami kit (paper and instructions), a collection of legos, a paint/calligraphy kit, binoculars/small telescope, microscope/magnifying glass, Rubik's cubes, puzzles in general, model kits, sand-box style toys (stuff like legos where you can do/build a whole variety of stuff instead of being constrained to just doing one thing).

@FinaleTI: You, good sir, win the internet.

I am SO setting that my default coding font from now on

Oh god, I suddenly have the urge to hand-craft code using a really fancy calligraphy pen on some parchment...

Thanks for the support.

Yeah, I've been trying to stop procrastinating as much -- I'm actually making a daily todo list (and I try and check off each item at every opportunity.  I'm actually trying to train myself to feel unhappy if I have too many unchecked items, so that I compulsively do things, just so I check them, but it's not working too well ),  I'm worried that I'll start backsliding though, but hopefully that won't happen.

Our school doesn't do AP -- they do something called IB (International Baccalaureate) which is fairly similar in difficulty/college likability (I think), but is designed to be more... international in scope (AP is pretty much confined to the US).  I'm taking IB English, History, Physics, Business, and Calculus.

I didn't have summer homework, but I had to go do SAT prep, plus I signed up for an online AP Computer Science (just the first semester of the first level/course/thing).  Was it just my particular online class, or is Java taught in all AP Computer Science classes?  Because after churning out tiny program after program, I am really starting to hate the language.

I would highly recommend you look up pointers.  They're basically related to low-level manipulation of memory.  Googling it would pull up a bunch of explanations in C/C++, so ignore the specifics of the syntax and focus on trying to understand the concept.

.TEST

Text(0,0,L1>Dec)
Pause 1000

(The '>Dec' token can be found in the number menu).

L1 can be thought of as a constant that tells you the start of some free memory you can much around in.  Let's say (hypothetically speaking) that running the above program displayed the number '541'.  That means that starting from the 541th byte in RAM, you have (according to the documentation) about 700 bytes to play around in -- from the 541th byte to about the 1241th byte (give or take a little).

If you want to store anything to those bytes, you use curly brackets.

.TEST2

3->{L1}
4->{L1+5}

Text(0,0,{L1}>Dec)
Text(0,8,{L1+5}>Dec)
Pause 100

This would store the number '3' to the 541th byte, and the number '4' to the 546th byte, and display first the number '3' then the number '4'.

Finding a segment of free memory (by using this method, or by allocating program memory/making an appvar, which is more complicated), is the only way you can have lists or arrays in Axe.

Sometimes, though, you just don't have enough free RAM to be able to do anything complex.

You can use square brackets to store raw data directly into your program.

.TEST3

[01020A0B]->P
That would store a bunch of hex (in this case, exactly 4 bytes), and store the pointer to the variable P.

If I did...

.TEST4

[01020A0B]->P

Text(0,0,{P+2}>Dec)
Pause 1000
That would display the 3rd byte (indexes start at zero), which would be the number '10' (in hex, 0A is ten).

This is a good way to store and read, say, a tilemap or level data.

r1 to r6 are variables, just like A, B, C, and D.  If you pass values to functions, they'll be stored to r1 to r6.

Also, one thing that tripped me up when I started Axe -- you don't need curly braces to store and read from simple variables like A, B, or r1.

Sweet!

Question:  would about 2 months be a reasonable timeframe to build a fairly complex robot?  We're considering introducing the kits sometime in October, and having a mini-competition (just within our club) in December.

Also...

*Michael crosses his fingers in hope

Is there a Python interpreter/compiler for either of them?
I have to admit, I'm a bit of a Python fanboy

Cool, thanks for the suggestions.

So... RCX is more flexible then NXT, but is slower?

Just to check, both of them DO support C++ (or a C-like language), right?  With OOP and everything?