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Originally Posted by slavik262
This is horribly true. We get the bad rap no matter what the problem is.
The funniest thing to me this year:
While in pits, I was often told to "fix my code" so that the robot would work. My response to this statement was "fix your wiring." 95% of the time our electrical guy would come out with a loose wire or a bad relay, and everything would work beautifully the second he fixed it (of course until the next "code" problem, that is)  . |
Yes, we are always blamed. Although the problem is not often our fault, we can almost always fix it, so we receive the blame
. This year I had to compensate for a messed up control system and the fact that electrical wired up the motors backwards.
The other programmer working with me once threw this into my code while I wasn't looking:
Code:
this line will break your code xD;
It was one of my easier compile errors to fix. It's too bad we don't code in Python, otherwise that would have probably compiled if I included