Thread: The One-language-per-year Challenge
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Re: The One-language-per-year Challenge
The build season is 6 weeks. The programming team is lucky if they get a vetted mechanically robot at the end of week 4. More like the last week or the last week end . Not a time for the programming team to be dealing with a new language. I want our programming team to be up to speed and ready to run hard when the robot is finally ready for them. If we change a language it would have to start in the summer and continue through the fall to be ready for the season. We have students that have multiple years of lab view experience and can run with a project. I would hate to throw all that experience away. We have used some arduino boards and some programmers have been exposed to c and c++ with them. I prefer a master of one.