I Don't Know C Or C++ Ahhhhhh!!

[Argoth]

could somebody send me a program that they used in their robot mabey please because i am in my second year of java but i know very little about c or c++ Thank you

[sanddrag]

None of us have used C in our FIRST robots before. This will be the first year. They used to be PBASIC.

This link should be very helpful to you. http://www.innovationfirst.com/FIRSTRobotics/edu-read-me.htm

[Ryan Albright]

c isnt that bad i tookd c++ last year in computer ap. It takes a day or two to learn the basics and then you just play with it. best way to get information go to a search enginge and type in like c source code and just start looking at it and runnign the program tos ee what it does and stuff best way to learn is hands on

[Mark Hamilton]

The Java syntax borrows heavily from C, so I dont think you have to much to worry about. The major difference is C is a much lower level language, and thus the compiler won't do as much of the work for you. IFI will be supplying a default program that will handle all the tricky I?O parts, so I wouldn't worry to much. Once you've learned one language well, you should be able to adapt to another language fairly quickly.

[Kevin Karan]

Im scared. I havent programmed in C for a few years...

[IMDWalrus]

Originally posted by Kevin Karan
Im scared. I havent programmed in C for a few years... If it makes you feel any better, I haven't programmed in C ever...

At least I learn quickly...

[Kevin Karan]

I wish they would release the full sample code already... At least the reference guide has enough information to get started.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally posted by Kevin Karan
I wish they would release the full sample code already... At least the reference guide has enough information to get started.
They already released the EDU Default code: http://www.innovationfirst.com/FIRSTRobotics/pdfs/EDU_Default_Code_10-22-2003.zip
The code for the full sized controller will be pretty much the same except for some headers / includes / libraries / etc. Any code you write for the EDU should copy & paste into the framework they give us for the full controller (except for some simple modifications).

[Kevin Karan]

what I ment was the functional one, they have previouly released tank and 1joy sample code. I'd just like to see somthing functional, but I guess im going to have to do that myself ;)

Actualy, im quite happy about the language swicth, if there is autonomus mode this year again, I should be able to do somthing better, my autonomus code from last year was too slow/buggy, we ended up compleaty rewriteing it durring our first regional.