[Skabana159]

From a student programmer's perspective, even I would like to see some more flexibility.

One year and 8 weeks ago, my programming experience was limited solely to my TI-83 graphing calculator. (Two words: IF-THEN-ELSE). However, after my rookie year of FIRST, under the supervision of our EE supersenior Ed Lentz, I had somehow become the cheif student programmer on the team. I must admit that last year was a lot more fun programming wise, (auto-balance program that would have worked, but for one that one bug of Ed's.) It is a fact that I programmed the vast majority of our team's code this year.

In fact, now I even consider myself to be a programmer, and not merely on FIRST. In the off-season, I took it up to learn C, VB, and just a little bit of Perl. Now that I feel like I know what I'm doing, I would like to see something that I could sink my teeth into a little more, even without an EE on the team. The PCB was fun, but I don't think it serves much good, just measuring amperage of our drive motors. Anyways, this is already a long post, even though I could ramble on and on.