Playing with Mindstorms+NQC (http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/) is one of the main reasons I love programming. I am sure there is an updated version for the latest evolution.
I later got into Handyboard+IC, which is even more powerful/hackable.
I later got into Handyboard+IC, which is even more powerful/hackable.
A better and more up-to-date C implementation for Mindstorms is RobotC: http://robotc.net