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Re: Teaching "C" to 2006 students??
I have to tell you, this is a GREAT idea.

Our team had several students who wanted to help write code at the start of the season. Unfortunately, only a couple had done any C programming before and that meant that I had to teach programming if any of them were going to actually write code. We ended up having the students do design of the autonomous, and the couple that knew C assisted me in the writing of the code.

It would be wonderful if next year we had students who had used a 'simulator' to try out different things with the autonomous mode and had some experience with C as well.

Please continue on with this great project. I'll be at the Championship Event in 364's pit if you'd like to chat, or I will stop by your pit to see how the project is coming along and just say "Hi". See You Next Week!
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