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Re: Open Invitation to help design a programming game for FRC
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Originally Posted by teslalab2
I completely agree! people have no idea the work that goes into getting the data from a joystick to the roborio. and the roborio is quick enough you could write absolute crap, and it would be fast enough! make them program something useful on a ti-83 calculator. thats when efficiency matters! You could have a program challenge where they have to make a program to calculate digits of pi, and the fastest one wins.
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I completely disagree.
If software does and is, what it is required to do and be, it's a defect-free success.
PS: See the XKCD cartoon at the URL in EricH's post.
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Last edited by gblake : 15-06-2015 at 01:41.
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