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Re: Advantages of each programming language

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Care to elaborate? What do you define as a computer scientist?
A student planning on getting a computer science degree rather than engineering or physics.

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Is this a problem? FRC is a very specialized application.
I was thinking the skills from FIRST can help in college and in a career.

Both my kids learned Java from an awesome teacher at the high school and C++ on the robotics team. Neither encountered a class in college (both are EEs) where they did not already know the programming language and tools. They both won the junior design contests in college and attribute their success to FIRST experience.

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