[demosthenes2k8]

I agree with Andrew Schreiber. A problem that I had this year with training was that I focused too much on the language and not enough on reasoning and problem solving. I would suggest learning about the people you're training, and see how they learn best.

I agree, source control is immensely important. When I joined the team three years ago, "version control" meant "datestamped folders". Last year I was in charge of setting up SVN on googlecode, which wasn't used as much as it should have been. This year, we used it a lot more. (There are quite a few people on software in 166) Unfortunately, we had some issues with the internet, and so over the summer we're converting to Mercurial, which is also better because it supports branching, and unlike Git, is built for Windows by the HG team. It saved us big time at Battlecry, when our robot stopped working right before a match and we had to go back through the revisions to find a stable one. With SVN, it would have been harder because it's not distributed.