Thread: Who to Choosing Between programming language?
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Re: Who to Choosing Between programming language?
LV, C++, Java. They all can run the robot. What I've experienced on our team that made a real difference was the Data Flow or Real Time mind set. Prior to our 2010 season, the robot code had a procedural and web type flavor. Then in 2010 we went for swerve drive and our code had allot of sensors and we closed the loop. We learned the hard way that the coding mindset that our students brought from the CS classes was causing allot of problems. The worst was at our first regional when our robot had a grand Mal seizure. (our team called it the happy dance). That's when it suddenly sank in what all the NI tutorials meant by data flow. By the end of the season our code had been re-written many times as our students embraced the Data Flow mindset. We continued to work on this in 2011. Teams that do not have a programming mentor that is familiar with real time embedded systems are at a disadvantage. No matter what language teams chose life will be nicer if they learn the real time - data flow mind set.