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Re: Programming Team Size, and do they all do?

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Originally Posted by sumadin View Post
I would think that you'd want the people who wrote the code to write the documentation, because they know best what it does.
That's exactly why you don't want them to do the documentation. They already know the purpose and intended usage of each routine, so they're not going to realize how important it is to explain the less straightforward details. You want someone with an "outsider" point of view to fully document everything, asking the coders to explain things that aren't obvious.

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What exactly do you mean by a configurable dashboard viewer?
The OI's dashboard port lets a computer eavesdrop on the radio modem communication. There's a provided dashboard viewer program which shows all the relevant data, but it isn't necessarily in the most useful form on screen. If you can tie the dashboard feedback to a nice graphical representation of the robot, you might have a better diagnostic tool when testing the system.