Thanks for the support everyone! I know for sure my teacher/mentor will want me to use LabVIEW for the robot next year, and that's fine by me since it looks a lot easier to use than a window of text such as C++, Java, etc. I'll be sure to check out all those links! And I'll use the extra motors, wheels, and whatever else we have to start practicing with it. The videos and tutorials, plus this forum, should be enough for me to get a solid foundation soon
As for C++ and other codes, I don't know if we'll need it at all next year, but as far as I know, the Kinect SDK only works with C++ and C# (and having never actually seen C#, I plan on going with the former, however similar they may be). Does anyone know of any good online tutorials I could use for issuing orders to the robot via positions? Not necessarily gestures or audio commands, but simply positions. After I get that far,
then we'll get fancy hehe
Thanks again! This is tons of help!
EDIT: I opened the Getting Started documents in LabVIEW (thanks to the first suggestion here) and theres 5 entire chapters to get familiar with the program, AS WELL AS all the tutorial links here. So if anyone else happens to stumble upon this thread later in the same situation as me, definitely check those out! I just completes the first chapter in about an hour and already am a lot more confident with the program ^^