[taichichuan]

Our team has 2 mentors and 8-10 students. We use SVN and google groups for collaboration. We've been pretty lucky this year with some good code written by the students and the opportunity to test major subsystems before the robot shipped. Still lots of code that needs to be tested before the New Orleans Regional, but at least there is code for most of the systems that has sort of been tested.

We write in C++. Unfortunately, most of our students had little or no experience in writing code when we started the pre-season. We spent the first several months of the school year teaching them coding concepts, variable types, control structures and giving them test problems that could be run on their PCs. We also went through all of the control systems, sensors types and how they interact. It was a lot of work, but most of the students stepped up to the plate.

Fortunately, only a couple of the students are seniors. So, with any luck, we'll get several of them back for next season.