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Unread 05-15-2010, 05:33 PM
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Re: Making autonomous accessible to all teams
For teams without software mentors, the current FRC programming environments are just too difficult. While our team has never had a issue (since we have four years of computer science at our school) you only need to look at the number of robots on the field that just sit there during autonomous to understand that there's a problem.

There really needs to be something of the level of RobotC or even NXT-G (written in LabVIEW, by the way) for teams in this situation. LabVIEW is too much for some teams, forget about C++ or Java. A nice simple development environment and an easy to learn language is what it will take.
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