I agree that easyC will be very useful for anyone who does not know C all that much, finds the default code somewhat daunting (like myself
) or if you want to whip up a custom drive program lickity-split. And I'm also almost 100% sure that there will be camera blocks for you to use in easyC. During some testing, I saw a group of programmers from a FIRST team (high school aged with adult help) get the camera tracking a vision tetra from last year, and following the tetra with the robot in a fashion similar to Mr. Lavery and his Hawaiian shirt, within three hours.
Not half bad for a GUI programming interface. Personally, I believe that with the introduction of easyC for FRC and LabView, robot programming in FIRST will be changed forever (for the better mind you
).