[Burmeister #279]

I apologize for not reading all 3 pages, but i had to skip some to be able to post this.

Last year I was the only programmer and my mentor had no experience in LabVIEW but we decided to take a chance and use it anyways. I am very glad I got the chance to use it however, we never were able to use it to its full potential, mainly due to time and manpower constraints. we were one of the robots at nationals that didn't do anything in autonomous for the first two matches simply because we couldn't figure it out. We eventually did, but not before I fell prey to death stares from four DANA mentors, three parents, 15 students (and a partridge in a pear tree) because our robot didn't move for two practice matches and the autonomous of the third. Our (more specifically, my) inexperience with the software as it pertains to FRC along with its perceived problems (download speed, learning curve, some other things) led us to change our environment C++ this year, and bring in four new members to the programming team. I felt it would not be the best for me personally, but it is definitely working for the team. Overall I'm glad I got the chance to use LabVIEW for the year, but it just didn't work for the team. I would definitely suggest that teams with programmers who have no experience with coding use LabVIEW. Maybe the team will return to LabVIEW as well next year when it can be seen as more stable by the team.