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Auton

After helping a few folks at Cleveland fixup their auton code, here are the problems i noticed:

1. Program Flow issues, meaning people not
seperating auton from human mode.
This included not understanding how program slots work and the need to initialize things
properly.

2. Testing Issues, meaning people didn't have time to checkout the timing of the path the robot
would take on a real field... we had this issue a little bit also, especially after swapping drill motors. (stupid brushes fell out)

3. Multiple programmer messes...
On our team: I wrote the Auton Code, someone else wrote the human code.
It was all Heavily commented so either of
us could understand what each section did of
any block. I also broke it down into 5 program
slots to keep it all neat.

Just my $0.03
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2001 NJ Regional
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2003 OH Regional
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2004 OH Regional
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