What base class do you use when programming?

[E Dawg]

What base class do you use when programming and why?

[madhav]

Simple robot for life

[JohnFogarty]

Iterative Robot based for life. Actually I'm moving to command based this year.

[Oblarg]

Last year we used iterative robot, because finite state machines are very easy to write and we didn't want to deal with concurrency.

We may look at multithreading this year.

[madhav]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

We may look at multithreading this year.

We might try multithreading as well. But we want to shy away from CommandBased and try to write our own.

[Jared Russell]

java.lang.Object

[Poseidon5817]

Simple Robot, considering moving to Iterative Robot.

[madhav]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

java.lang.Object

I second this

[Kingland093]

We use simple because it's well… simple.
One of our programmers briefly experimented with iterative

[Bryce Paputa]

I'm not going to say that they're wrong, but anyone not using command based should seriously consider it. It does make some simple things more complicated, but greatly helps readability and maintainability, and it makes chaining actions together and responding to inputs very easy.

[nathanwalters]

IterativeRobot. What it lacks in simplicity it makes up for in flexibility.

[wmarshall11]

Originally Posted by Bryce Paputa

I'm not going to say that they're wrong, but anyone not using command based should seriously consider it. It does make some simple things more complicated, but greatly helps readability and maintainability, and it makes chaining actions together and responding to inputs very easy.

Having spent serious time and energy trying to make complex actions work safely with SimpleRobot, switching to CommandBased was probably the best programming decision 11 ever made. Not having logic sprinkled through all levels of your code is the best thing ever.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by wmarshall11

Having spent serious time and energy trying to make complex actions work safely with SimpleRobot, switching to CommandBased was probably the best programming decision 11 ever made. Not having logic sprinkled through all levels of your code is the best thing ever.

We switched to Java 2 seasons ago and went straight for the Command Based structure, and we have been all aboard ever since. As a professional Java developer and ex-CS teacher I feel it teaches excellent practices and is pretty simple to pick up as a beginner.