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Originally Posted by Donut
I would have loved for us to do some of these. It doesn't work as well when all of your programmers have learned how to code from school courses though; they aren't used to "figuring it out" for themselves, and since they were all new to the FIRST program (they had various coding experience, but I was the only returning robotics programmer) many wouldn't have a clue where to begin to look for information on this.
If done properly a large programming team could work (once you get beyond robot programming). I have my doubts from last year though, and I won't allow it to be that big again.
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Our team is similar--We don't really have much time to teach them to do anything but robot programming. Our two current programmers (Calhounian and me) came onto the the team last year knowing 0 programming. Currently, we have about only 3-4 people who can do any programming in anything other than C and other than for the robot.
Many of those projects sound really cool, but for us right now, it's not much of an option.
Last year, though, we did have a few students who designed and wrote a scouting program for us in Java.