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Unread 14-01-2006, 23:55
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Re: Easy C programming , Worth teaching?

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Originally Posted by Kingofl337
Mike, I don't think your response was in line with the Gracious Professionalism that FIRST was founded on. Especially seeing your not even talking about the right product. EasyC does not use flow charting, it based on drag and drop C which teaches programmers the syntax they need to learn to program freehand in C.

With the WPIlib for a back end, EasyC has all the sensors for this years competition and more. This includes the CMUCam, Gyro, Encoders, gear tooth sensors, and more. It is very possible for a team to have built and completed most of the programing without a finished robot because EasyC allows you to focus on the problem not the minor details of setting up all sensors. To some degree with just a few victors on a piece of plywood and some motors you can see what is going on very quickly.

Good Luck 1388
I don't see anything Non-GP about my post. All I said was that I doubt a team has completed what normally takes 6 weeks in 5 days. That's a perfectly reasonable doubt. I was also mildly annoyed at the way that he was seeming to use any post to "brag" that his programming was already done. This may be an unreasonable annoyance on my part.

If I understand EasyC, this "drag and drop C" is basically flowcharting that generates code.

Also, if you read the post I quoted it said that he did not use EasyC. It may be perfectly possible to program a theoretical robot in 5 days using EasyC. I would not know, as I have not tried. The person I quoted, however, said that he programmed it purely in text-based C. That is what I was doubting.

And yes, good luck 1388. Good luck to all teams.
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