[davidthefat]

Ok, first I made the Autonomous Challenge for those teams with 2+ years of programming experienced member in their team. I never meant it to be for the teams with rookie programmers, even if your team is a veteran, the veterans leave every 4 years, so not even veteran teams. I never meant it to be accessible to rookies just like that, without them actually knowing whats going on. I remember like 4 years ago, I looked at the source of AssaultCube, I was just blown away, me being 12 did not help much either. But I still had the basics of C++ under my belt. I am not trying to brag or anything, but 4 years of programming experience is not much considering the fact that there are guys with 10+ even 30+ years of experience. But the project was NEVER intended for new programmers. I like the motive of the guys behind the autonomous SDK stuff, but really, it won't help in the long run... Building things from scratch builds character.

Programming is like any other profession: the longer you do it, the better you get. I see back at my old code from when I was 12, I just facepalm my self. It is terrible... I new how to program, sure the end result worked, but the way I did it was either redundant or just plain ol' stupid.

Yes some of you more experienced guys out there might think I may be on the same boat, an autonomous robot is just way over my head. Well the end result might not get my championships, but I can say confidently that I did not touch the joystick the whole competition.


edit: I had an Algebra 2 test today, I can now say that I think too much like a programmer... I do not get enigma stuff... I think of for loops instead...