[Bryan Herbst]

The other programmer and I who have been around began coding on the IFI controller in C. Last year, with much persuasion on my part, we decided to try LabView.

I was perfectly okay with it, but the other programmer despised it for a number of reasons.

This year was the first year we have truly had new members interested in programming. Though the mentors and I pushed for labview, we decided to leave it up to a vote of the new programming team. For whatever reason, they decided to go with C++ (I attribute some of this to the fact that two of the members are currently in our school's Computer Science class, which teaches in java, and thus provides text-based experience).

The idea behind the mentors' and my thinking was that LabView would be easier to teach, easier for them to grasp onto quickly, and more comfortable as many of them use it in their workplace (Medtronic). Luckily one mentor has experience with C++, and the other programmer and I have our previous experience work off of.

Still not sure why the decision to use C++ was made, and we will have to see how it turns out.