Designing a Novice Programming Environment for RoboCup Soccor 2D Simulation

The RoboCup Soccer 2D Simulation is the oldest RoboCup league, and has been variably used as a test bed of a multi-agent systems [1]. Programming beginners cannot participate in RoboCup because the programs used for RoboCup soccer 2D are very large and complicated. We want students who are interested in the RoboCup soccer 2D to participate more in games. We built the development environment yapEd that can develop a soccer agent program easily, in order to increase students´ game participation. This paper reports the details of the environment created.