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Re: Advice- Too many Programmers?
What we started doing to give others programming experience was to duplicate projects, and form mini competitions. Those of you that are going to the Battle O' Baltimore may notice that 888 has registered two teams. Both teams have identical robots, the only difference is the people in charge of maintaining each one, and the programming. Each team has their own programmer, and each of them have their own ideas, that they developed independently with some guidance from myself (I have now graduated and am no longer with the team) and our mentors. After competition, the plan is for them to then come back together and discuss what went well and what did not.
With larger groups, if you have a lack of jobs, because of the openendedness of programming, I feel this system would be helpful, especially to give some prospective programmers ideas of alternate ways to perform the same task, which may also become useful in their later careers.
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I program a robot. Which means I write code and everyone gets mad at me when something doesn't work, even if I am the only one that knows it doesn't work. The key part to know is that the robot never works.
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