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Originally Posted by colt527
I guess my feels can all be summed up in the fact that I think that though you are helping out rookie teams and leveling the playing field and that is great, but isn't this putting more focus on the competition itself and not what you learn on the way. This gives rookies a chance to compete against veterans, but will they ever really learn the insides of a PID loop or what interrupts are. If it was not for having to figure all of the code out for myself, I know I wouldn't have a clue either.
These are just my opinions, I don't know the outcome, or how this will work out, and I don't claim to.
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I completely agree that the FIRST handing us all the code is a bad idea. It truely does take the focus off of learning a skill like programming. If I were a rookie trying to learn programming I would not learn much if I new all I had to do was use a supplied scripting language to tell the robot to travel 30mm and turn 4pi radians. I am also upset because I have been working on writting a scripting language and gui-frontend for non-programmers on my team to edit and write code for auotonomuos mode.