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Re: Programming dumbed down even more.
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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday View Post
If you're out of things to program on the robot, why not try making some non-robot projects? When we got too many rookies who wanted to be programmers last year (I mean honestly, we didn't need 15 people to program a Ultimate Ascent robot), we tasked them with designing a scouting database and system, picklist app, and a better algorithm than OPR for choosing our partners. Not all of it worked in the end but it sure provided them with a fun challenge!
Again this is all creativity right here. (He was saying FIRST competition has nothing to do with creativity) sure not all of it worked but I bet the rookies learned alot. Right.