[Coach Seb]

2016 was our rookie team and we had one programmer that ;learned LV on its own with help from a couple other local team. He did pretty good considering that he was pretty much on its own. Just graduated and we are now starting from scratch again.

I reviewed some data from FIRST and found that of all robot that connected to a field last year, 49% use Java, 35% use LV... remaining are C++ and a few Python....

I decided to check out Java... i love the Eclipse interface. I used Robotbuilder successfully to build a few small subsystems and so far i really like the test mode using the java Smartdashboard. Just that for us justify making the switch.

Our students are already learning basic Java programming as they are expecting the switch.

I did not successfully control a test robot yet... but i am confident that i can make it work... finding a lot of resources online. Hoping this will be a good move... only time will tell...