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Re: Tips for first-year programmers

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Are you doing this as a driver who prefers a handheld controller to joysticks for driving a robot, or are you doing it as a programmer who's imposing his preference on the drivers? Give proper consideration to the people who actually have to use what you come up with.
I will be one of the 4 main drivers. The controller is much easier for me and I asked the other 3 guys if they care one way or the other and they didn't seem to have any opinion. I don't see how y'all can stand the giant joysticks!

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
My top number 1 suggestion for you: Reprogram last year's robot this fall. Start from scratch, and don't reuse any code from last year. Once you can get it up and running again with all of your own code, you'll know you're ready to tackle the new robot on day 1 of the build season.
DEFINITELY! My teacher and I already decided on this last year, and I'm about to put LabVIEW on my new laptop and start learning it later this week or next week, so I wanted to post here FIRST to go ahead and get in the right mindset and make sure there isn't anything I simply forget
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