Thread: Programming Team Size
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Unread 11-12-2005, 12:00
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Re: Programming Team Size
Our programming team is about 5-6 kids. I think at times it is hard to keep everyone doing something, especially when something specific needs to be accomplished. Everyone sort of has to crowd around the laptop and watch the one person at the keyboard, and it can be a little (actually, a lot) boring.

One good way to break it down would be to have part of your programming team working on programming the EDUBot or the Vex robots. They're very similar to the full size robot, and it's a lot easier to test code on them since you don't have to worry about smashing into anything. That way you can have two programming teams that work together on different objectives.