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Originally Posted by jeremypg399

We have 8 people on the subteam who CAN program.
4(Myself included) people who DO program.
These four usually do the control system stuff, also.
We have one mentor helping us in programming, one mentor keeping us focused .

For collaboration and version control, we use Subversion and Google Code(http://code.google.com/p/frc399-2011-code-james-bot/)

One thing that really annoyed me this build season is the delay in the robot completion. We give the manufacturing team 4 weeks to build it. They give it to us 3 days before ship. As soon as we plug in, they start bugging us. "Did you get it working yet??!?"
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I probably shouldn't keep responding to people's posts but this has happened to me both years i've programmed. Last year was worse though, for breakaway, we literally finished building the robot AT the regional. And our programming team can't make demands such as robot completion dates, 1 person vs. an entire team of builders doesnt go over to well. I'm content with occasionally using the robots chassis for motor testing and et cetera, but the other 99% of the time I'm just experimenting with sensor algorithms and new driver stations and systems. If i had the robot 2 weeks prior to ship i could have a flawless auton. but the bot would be less than flawless so i let them take care of that. And its always the same nagging with getting it to work as soon as theyre done, dont you love it