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Re: 2007 Robot Controller

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Originally Posted by ThomasP View Post
I'm not really up for a argument about which programming language is better... the only reason I'd like to see Java in FIRST is because of the AP classes being taught in Java. Some people struggle in CS classes learning one language and telling them the robot is programmed in a different language from what they're learning in class destroys their potential interest fast.
I am not sure how familiar you are with C or JAVA but it is very easy to move between them, if you have learned to program in JAVA you should have no problem moving to C. Also a good AP course should be focusing on the algorithm design and psuedo code portion of programming more than they focus on language syntax. If you can only program in one language then you really haven't learned computer science, you learned JAVA or C or Basic. I taught my self C, then basically taught my self JAVA (I was in a class but the teacher had never used anything other than Q basic) and that was more than enough for me to learn how to program. Since then I have picked up VB, and Python in about a week each, I am starting to do some work with C#. Once you learn to program (not to code) you can switch between languages no problem, you just may want to keep some reference materials around to remember syntax if you haven't used a language in a while.
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