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Re: Programming with the 2009 controller

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Originally Posted by Danny Diaz View Post
I was with you up until right there. Even Dean Kamen has come out and publicly said that FIRST is not about teaching engineering, it's about inspiration. I figured I'd throw that out there since it gets thrown in my face enough as it is.

-Danny
Danny,

That's true....but what I find inspires these kids is getting them to the point of competency with the programming. I expect them to write the VI's to perform autonomous, control the drives and other actuators and implement feedback control, as well as being able to debug.

I don't expect them to become LabView experts....but I DO want to leave them with that taste of wanting more. THAT's what I call inspiration.

BTW, will the FRC Toolkit VI's that I have be of any use?
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