Thread: Senior Programmer: advice on training new recruits
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Re: Senior Programmer: advice on training new recruits
It depends on how much previous programming experience they've had. Do they know C already and actually used it before? Do they know any other programming languages? Depending on how much they know already, you can give them control of actually doing the writing and have them turn in all code to you for review before it becomes an 'official' part of the robot's code. After you look over the code, you could tell them what could be improved, where the logic errors are, etc. You can also help to lead them in figuring out exactly what they're going to try to do in the code.

That assumes they have at least some basic knowledge of C and general logical thinking and it also cuts you out of a lot of the programming, but it will definetly help them to learn for the future.
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