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Re: Should a programmer be a driver too?
We're doing that this year. Our lead student programer is also our best driver. He's said it can be a little stressful at time, but it's worth it to be able to experience the code first hand and know exactly what it's doing on the field. It's much harder to have to explain the problem to someone else. Once he comes off the field, he's back in the pits fixing the code.
At our meeting tonight, he admitted that he changed the code between almost every match. And the robot did indeed drive better. =]
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