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Originally Posted by marccenter
I hope we move away from C programming and to a graphical language like the way I have been programming for the past three years - Matlab and Simulink. For high school students who haven't yet been exposed to these packages, think Robolab or NI Labview.
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I think options are great. More languages, high level interfaces for those who want it, but also... retain the low level (C) interface for those of us comfortable with it!
The SW kids on our team have mastered writing C code for the robots and I'm proud of them for doing it. In my opinion, knowing how to write code in C helps immensely for being able to efficiently use higher-level languages and interfaces. Kind of like how students always learn how to do long division and calculus by hand, even though there are higher-level tools out there that they could use.
Give us choices - don't make the decisions for us!