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Re: Open Invitation to help design a programming game for FRC
Faust - I love that you are stirring the computer science and software pot here in the CD forums. That's definitely a good thing.
But, you lose me (and maybe a large fraction of the readers you hope to motivate) when you make extraordinary claims like this one.
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Originally Posted by faust1706
FRC programming ultimately fails to demonstrate what computer science really is.
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Be willing to cast your net a little more broadly, and I think you find that FRC topics like hard-deadline real-time scheduling, automated testing, distributed processing, high-availability, communication protocols, executable specifications, and ... are allowed into the computer science tent by most definitions.
Maybe you can come up with a game/challenge that includes some of those aspects of CS, along with the ones you already emphasized? I'll bet the audience here in the CD site would be more excited by a challenge that manages to include something from several of the domains we have collectively mentioned.
Blake
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Last edited by gblake : 15-06-2015 at 01:39.
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