[DiscoKittyPrime]

We have two people on programming this year with one mentor. Last year we didn't have a mentor and it was my first year being the main programmer and we didn't get the robot to program until the friday of our first regional about two hours before our first match. We had the ability to test the code once after downloading it before it made it to the field which is why they had to drive the robot backwards the first match. We didn't get all the functionality finished until near the end of the regional because there was always something to be fixed on the robot.

This year went a little better. We essentially kidnapped last year's chassis and hoarded it for us to get programming work done and tested for the chassis along with the chassis allowed us to add more sensors. Some of the mentors were pushing to put our cRio on the robot two weeks before the end of build purely to have it on there and we pretty much had to stand our ground and hide away the cRio. When we got to competition, they realized how much better off we were as far as programming is concerned this year compared to last year because we had the base to program. Next year, we are keeping the entire robot together and using both the chassis from breakaway and the entire bot from this year for the programming team.

As far as code sharing, we only have a team laptop and the laptop of the programming mentor. We would work on code on the team laptop and then when we got that particular thing working, we would copy it over by emailing the text file and adding what was new into the actual program for the robot which was kept on the mentor's laptop and shared on a google docs that is owned by myself.