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Originally Posted by synth3tk
By the way, one way to convince your mentor to use C++, is to show that you're willing to teach the others how to use that language. And before you say anything (I've read your posts regarding teammates), don't underestimate your teammates. You've still got 5 weeks. That's plenty of time.
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This is some great advice. As someone who strives to be a leader on your team, it's your responsibility to help the rest of the students. Next spring, dedicate a few hours each week to teaching C++ or Java to all the new students. Then when January comes around, you'll be able to program the robot in that language. But until then you have to do whatever allows the rest of the software students to follow along and get some benefit out of coming to the meetings.
As a side note, our team starts off each school year with 5-10 new software students on average who have absolutely no programming experience. We use the spring semester to teach them enough to be able to follow along when we start programming after kickoff. Hopefully by the end of the season they'll know enough to contribute in a meaningful way. Then when they return the next season they're ready to go from the start and write their own code. It's taken many years to get to this point, but it's far better than a few mentors with a couple of students doing all the work.