[gixxy]

Well I talked to our Programming Mentor about using C++ for both. (He actually knows C++ more than Java). He was afraid that with something so much more complex as the Competition Bot that we would have a lot more problems with Memory Management and the other lower level pitfalls on C++.

Here is what he said:

For next year's robot, I think java is better for beginners because it will prevent you from doing things like buffer over flows or invalid memory access. I think Java might be more inclusive and could get us some more programmers. For the t-shirt cannon and anything else, lets just use what ever we want.

Oh course that means I still need to teach C++ to them anyway. I only have one more year on the team.

Other than the Mentor I am the only one who knows any C++. There is only one other Student who knows Java, but not as well as I. It does help a bit, but not much.