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Re: Advice- Too many Programmers?

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Originally Posted by seg9585 View Post
Keep in mind that not everyone on the programming team will actually be *coding*. Some will be working on logic flow and concept of operation, control documentation, configuration management, and autonomous mode planning. Others will be working advanced efforts such as custom game piece detection and interaction, robot autonomy (in both auto and teleop modes), etc. Others will work on scouting apps and database design, website programming, etc.
Unfortunately, our experience is that very few of our students are ready to do high level tasks before they are ready to do coding. Do you have tasks/training that prepares team members for design and documentation before they are ready for programming? That would be a game changer for us.
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