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Re: Programming Help

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Originally Posted by Texan
The robot is great, but the fact that is only contolled by a human is what makes it special. I've always been interested in robotics and have read a lot about then and built two small ones. (Not that they were very good ) When I first heard about FIRST, I thought, "That's not real robotics, they are remote controlled." I found out later that there is autonomous time, but the point is still the same. At least in my mind, a robot is a robot because it can function on its own.

Like DeltaCoder said, it helps that I'm a programmer.

Helping a team out who isn't so good at programming is ok, but giving them the code doesn't help them learn how to do it next time.
hence the reason why I refuse to straight out write code for another team, beyond modular things like a lookup table example. I'll debug code, and rewrite a few lines so it works better, and I'll give examples with pseudocode, but I don't write an entire program for someone.
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