It looks like the exploding bacon public forum is under construction, we will get our website team to take a look at it. Sorry about that!
In the mean time, if anyone is interested, I have set up a series of
general java programming lessons through video game programming. I am trying to teach programming this way because not all of our programmers have access to a robot in their bedrooms, and all the lessons you learn through programming video games (e.g. critical thinking and debugging) are very applicable to the FRC programming we will be doing in 6 months.
Feel free to check out the website:
http://www.goodsky.tk/vg/ (forgive me the .tk domain, it's cheaper)
I recorded a getting started video to introduce the system to the bacon programmers. If you have students that want to start programming in the 2012 season, but don't know where to start, we would be glad to give them a helping hand!
Welcome and getting started video:
Summer Programming Challenge 2011