Teaching new programmers FRC Java

[grainne]

Hi CD community

I am the lead programmer on my team and I am looking for a good new way to train incoming programmers in FRC Java. This past season, our team didn't have a very good system for programming training so our incoming freshmen weren't nearly as prepared as they could have been for build season. Does any team have a good system/guide they use?

Thanks!

[GeeTwo]

You should check out this thead (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136993&highlight=java) from last month.

[DaveFrederick]

I have put together a PowerPoint presentation to walk through the general concepts of designing and coding a robot using RobotBuilder. I also created a detailed set of instructions to walk through the process.

I hope they are of some assistance.

Dave Frederick
Team 1895, Manassas, VA
Mentor

[pafwl]

I am a 19 year mentor for team 272, Lansdale Catholic Cyber Crusaders.

You can access sample code and a presentation from our Comcast FIRST Bootcamp. I presented a section on JAVA/C++. I has a review of Java basics and it presents a method to build your robot code on. This method makes the process very logical, flexible and creating multiple autonomous programs very, very easy.

http://www.frc272.com/files/seminar/Archive/

Good luck... have fun...

Email me directly at pafwl@aol.com.

PS - There is a presentation on using Sensors included and examples in the code.

[Tparbotmail]

For the new kids I put them here

http://courses.caveofprogramming.com/courses/java-for-complete-beginners

Very clear and professional