Code Repository

[Ryan Cumings]

Would other teams be interested in sharing code with each other? Would anyone be willing to open a repository?

[Obi]

What whould be the main purpose of a code repository? Ideas?

Originally Posted by Obi

What whould be the main purpose of a code repository? Ideas?

A code repository defeats the purpose. Everybody should learn the programming (who wants to). Sure, we can share ideas, but we shouldn't use each other's code.

[Ryan Cumings]

How about sharing code from years past?

[briholton]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

A code repository defeats the purpose. Everybody should learn the programming (who wants to). Sure, we can share ideas, but we shouldn't use each other's code.

AHHH, glad to see your team is writing their own controller code entirely from scratch and not using ANY of the code provided by first. I do not know a single professional programmer that has not used someone else's code - it's SOP! I think the code vault would be superb not only so we all can learn from other folk's examples now, but for my classroom, i would use it throughout the year to teach with. kudos!

Originally Posted by briholton

... not using ANY of the code provided by first ...

That's not what I meant. I don't think that we should put full implementations of specific things our robots will be doing.

Originally Posted by briholton

I think the code vault would be superb not only so we all can learn from other folk's examples now, but for my classroom, i would use it throughout the year to teach with. kudos!

However, I do agree with you that a repository would be a great place to learn and a great place to put general algorithms (like line following, etc.)

The reason why I think that full "ready-to-run" programs should not be uploaded to a repository because it encourages copy-paste. Yes, a big part of FIRST is learning from others. But a just as important part of FIRST is learning from discovery.

[Ryan Cumings]

That is what I was kind of getting at for the idea about the repository. It took me a long time to figure out how to integrate the yaw rate sensor signal. Every place I looked did not have one example on how to do it. Granted I figured it about after about 12 hours of fustration. It just would make me wonder how long some of the other programers (minions) on my team might have taken.

I'm currently implementing a repository at:

http://nrg.chaosnet.org/repository

Spread the word! Note: it is not finished, I'm working on it. And, you HAVE to register an account at the NRG website to be able to post code to the repository.

Hope you like it!

[deltacoder1020]

well, i would go add my demo trig table code, but the register/login feature does not work yet, apparently. looking like it's going to be nice when it does, though!

Originally Posted by deltacoder1020

well, i would go add my demo trig table code, but the register/login feature does not work yet, apparently. looking like it's going to be nice when it does, though!

Are you sure it doesn't work?

Click "Register." Then enter the info into the fields.
Click register.

Then login using your username and password.

[deltacoder1020]

i get an http 404 when i click on the initial "Register" button.

Originally Posted by deltacoder1020

i get an http 404 when i click on the initial "Register" button.

Try this page:http://nrg.chaosnet.org/uploads/slog...l_reg=Register

[deltacoder1020]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

When you click on what?

the initial "Register" button at the top of the Repository page.

[mtrawls]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

I'm currently implementing a repository at:

http://nrg.chaosnet.org/repository

Spread the word! Note: it is not finished, I'm working on it. And, you HAVE to register an account at the NRG website to be able to post code to the repository.

Hope you like it!

Is it intentional that you can't view code without registering? (Above you just say post code.) Without registering, the 'code' just consists of this:

<!-- nd GOT read1===false -->
/* Downloaded from the NRG repository: http://nrg.chaosnet.org/repository
Program title:
Author:
Date uploaded: Jan. 1, 1970 12:00 AM
*/
Array

Upon registering, though, I could see the code. (And, incidently, registering worked for me -- if you coulndn't tell.)

Exactly what do you click on? (the whole trail)

'cause it works when I'm not logged in.

(And I was working on it when you saw it, it's fixed now).

I'm starting a seperate thread for the NRG code repository specifically.