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My team is looking at scouting options, and I have a few questions for programmers on teams who develop an app for scouting. This year, I became a scout captain, and I'm basically in charge of finding new equipment for scouting this next season since our current scouting equipment is very outdated. We've been playing around with getting new equipment for a few months but I'm starting to get serious about it seeing that if we do decide to make an app, we would need to know if we are before build season.

I'm not sure how often it is used in the real world anymore but I was messing around with Microsoft Visual Basic 2010, and I found a video showing me how I could gather data in a Visual Basic program. The data would automatically fill into an excel file after a button was clicked. Obviously, this is just the beginning of what I could do with a scouting app. So far this year, I have learned a lot about Visual Basic, VEX RobotC, and we are currently learning CNC code. Since the beginning of the summer, I have learned a ton about excel and have become very proficient in that.

My questions to you are:
What language do you program your scouting app in?
If I need to learn this language, how hard would it be to do using internet guides?
What is your scouting app capable of doing?
What game day advantages does your app lend you?
How much human interaction (or data monkeying) is required?
How long did it take to build the first product of your app?
Is 1 programmer capable of doing this app by himself?
Any other information I should know about your app?

Any other successful scouting systems out there that don't require an app?

Thank you for responding. I'll post more questions if I can think of any others.