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Re: VEX programming

I was a Judge for VeX in Atlanta and spoke to Sam Mahserjian, the Marketing Manager for Radio Shack about the programming module. He told that it would be out in the August timeframe. It would based on the same C18 compiler that we use with the full size controllers, but they are building a custom GUI rather then using MPLab. The GUI would also beginning users to code via flowcharting and blocks (similar possibly to the Lego tools) but they would be able to that side-by-side with the C code and would be able to edit the C code directly or just write that themselves.

Sounds like an interesting way of doing it. In addition, this was sort of verified at the WPI programming session in the conferences. Brad Miller said that the company doing the work for RadioShack were coming out to speak with them the week after Atlanta and how it might be more graphical similar to what I said above.

Hope this helps and clears up confusion.

BTW, being a judge down there was great and I was impressed with what the teams did without any programming ability.
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