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Originally Posted by josh_marcy
Hey ChiefDelphi members,
I am one of the primary programmers on our team. I have some experience with Java and am learning general Java techniques, but I am not all that familiar with FIRST specific programming. If anyone has some starter tips for me, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
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I was a new programmer last year, and by the end of the season I programmed the whole robot in Java.
There is many team created resources out there currently, but the FIRST resources will become available at Kickoff. You can look at last years documentation
here; it has good info on basic WPILib programming technique that won't change with the new control system. 2015 control system documentation is
here, but you can't access it until kickoff.
I would highly recommend reading about
Robot Builder, and using it to generate all of your code.
You will be tempted to pick the SimpleRobot template because it is very simple, but I would recommend using CommandBased because it makes autonomous programming much easier.
I will once again stress the importance of reading all of the documentation provided at Kickoff because everyone will need to learn the new control system.
If you have any questions feel free to pm me or email me at
joey.holliday@barstowschool.org.
EDIT: Also make sure to follow
this guide to install Eclipse before kickoff, so that you are ready to start programming immediately.