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Re: Suggestion for next year's WPILib

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Originally Posted by Radical Pi View Post
Additionally, if the autonomous code happens to run into a fatal error and die, the robot would be given a second chance. Since only the autonomous task would be terminated and not the main robot task, the teleop code will still be started on time and the robot is given a sort of second chance.
Couldn't this be done in the current system using some well-placed exception handling?



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Originally Posted by mikets
It's good in theory but I do worry students may not understand multi-threaded programming.
From the perspective of a student, I think it's completely doable to teach multithreading. Maybe not easy -- but if it was easy it wouldn't be FIRST...
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