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Re: What New FIRST Programmers should be taught

If you're team is planning to use or considering using WPILibJ, there is a coding game called robocode at http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

It actually uses templates (Simple and Iterative robots) very similar to the WPI Libraries, and there robots and standardized and virtual - and if you have 4 students you could have them program bots to compete against each other (the robots are basically mini tanks) without having to build a kit-bot or something for them to play with.
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