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Originally Posted by itbmac
We have decided to sacrifice the autonomous mode so that the programming focus can be put on simply making the car controllable in the user-operation stage.
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Don't rule it out completely! Just make it a "plan B" for when you finish the teleop programming. Watching the robot go by itself is really amazing, and it's not too hard to do something simple during autonomous, like pushing the bridge down and getting the balls on your side.
Good luck, and remember that the kit of parts website (
www.usfirst.org/frc/kitofparts) is your friend! Especially the manual at the top of the "technical resources" page (so important that I didn't have to look up the addresses)
You say you've worked with several languages; what kind of programming have you done? Robotics programming is about infinite loops and doing something over and over, rather than something like a calculator where you just get something done and then wait for input again.