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Re: should there be a award for programming skill?

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post
So please, again, tell me what award is programming specific?
My point is, and always has been, that a "programming specific" award is neither necessary nor obviously desireable. I do agree that programming discipline is important. I still don't see that as a reason to give it special attention in the manner of the other robot-centric awards.

Explicitly rewarding programming skill seems to be along the same lines as explicitly rewarding machining skill or drafting skill or welding skill or crimping skill or drilling skill. While each is important in its own way, none is especially relevant to the "big picture" goals of FIRST, and none really deserve special recognition on a program level.

That said, if you want to lobby Larry and Sergey to create a "Google Good Programming Practice Award", I don't think anyone will try to stop you. I wouldn't be upset if it came into existence, and I'd even take such an award into account when mentoring the students in our team's software group. (But I wouldn't be surprised to find the same teams winning it year after year due to a combination of professional programming mentors and long-established team software infrastructure.)
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