I am the only programmer on the team, and they had to out-source to get me. I live in a diffrent county, so i live 30 min from where everything is going on at while everyone else lives about 5 min away. there were 2 other people signed up on the team to be programmers as well but they had no experience in any language. I have 3 books on C++ and i told them to look at it and i gave them the following link:
http://www.dreamincode.net/
but they never showed up again after the first meeting. My 'mentor' is some-what familiar in labview, so to test the robot while i wasn't able to attend the meetings he would produce code to test individual peices. I do not like GUI development. i beleive that there is more power and controll in hard coding your programs. I have only used the visual studio's IDE. the only other IDE that i have ever used (until this project) is Dev++ from bloodshed. and what is the vi-mode editor. I havn't figured that out ???