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Re: What was the hardest to program this year in Java?

Hah, I think the most complex thing in my code was the kicker stepping system, though the order processing system wasn't all that simple either. Of course the autonomous handler and the stepping manipulator building-blocks system were way more complicated but those were disabled in the competition version of the code. This was simply because I had to finish them after shipping and the mentors didn't want untested code in competition. In regard to WPI crap, I ended up doing a bunch of extensions just so I would have my own inheritance tree to play with, and I had to fix some bugs along the way.

Oh and speaking of shifting the blame away from programming, I had some serious issues with that. For two days at our regional the robot didn't move on the field. It worked just fine in the pit, tethered and it worked fine at school on wireless. Eventually I solved the problem by reimaging the cRIO, but that was after the mentors had ordered me to remove the Java code I wrote and replace it with the default LabView code. (There was a lot of fighting about this. Apparently someone from another team that used Java but switched to LabView came over and said that the Java code was the problem.) Unfortunately, this whole mess has now prevented us from going to Atlanta, although we've already paid the fee...
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