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Originally Posted by 1885.Blake
When I/we get some feedback from MM about how well the code worked, fix any bugs discovered, groom and polish it a bit, and then check with the FIRST Gods... maybe we will be able to announce a result that will help young teams ease into the world of FVC programming.
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First, Blake, thank you for spending countless hours on the programming. I know that there were some (almost) sleepless nights there.
Sure enough, there were 3 teams that showed up without any programming. But when we tried to open Blake's program from the help desk laptop, it wouldn't open. At the time, we were frazzled (arrived an hour late getting lost on the way there) and not thinking quite clearly. The people at the help desk had to move the teams along. So we brought the teams back to our station, and our next-door-neighbor and we were able to help them write some simple programs on the spot. One team had some jumpering that they had to eliminate because of our inability to program it. So if we had been able to use Blake's program, it would have come in handy.
I think the problem was that we were attempting to open the program from a CD (in the hurry, we'd forgotten to transfer the ECP and BDS files to the Projects folder).
As it turned out, it worked out. But there is definitely a demand for Blake's program -- we just need have a more streamlined process for using it. As more and more rookies join, I think this sort of thing will be imperative for the future.