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Re: Programmers on the Drive Team

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Originally Posted by GreyingJay View Post
You are right that what it boils down to is that the drivers need to talk to the programmers and vice versa. When it's one guy doing both then it's easy to have him code up exactly what he wants.
The only true advantage it gives me is that if I have a problem I don't need to try communicate what it is to anyone(sometimes it can be hard to explain), I just go and fix it.

It's also convenient when the programmers are testing the robot(we have both drive team members on programming this year) that we can get the practice while the other sub teams keep working.
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