[synth3tk]

Thanks for the suggestions. I should have also stated:

I'm a non-student member (I guess a mentor, in some ways), and our team is extremely small. I couldn't even coerce any students to learn programming, so I had to learn Java with some small help from the team mentor (who knew very little more about Java than I did) and the internet starting 2 days from Kick-Off.

We were just getting the bare minimum working. But I'll keep that in mind for the future, if/when we teach the new programmers.