What programming environment do you use?

[SL8]

If other, specify.

I was wondering about your experiences with that environment.

[TubaMorg]

Depends on what I'm working on:

Visual C++ for, uh, C++ projects usually OpenGL type stuff.

Borland JBuilder for Java although they've been bought out and JBuilder has turned into Eclipse which I'm not too comfortable with.

Emacs for Perl when I'm working in a Linux environment. A computer science teacher forced us to use Emacs one semester and it's stuck now. If I'm making small changes to C or C++ code that's already on Linux, then I'll go ahead and use Emacs for that too.

Only time I work with C is for FRC. I tend to poke around with our team's program using MPLAB, but the students use EasyC because they aren't very good with coding yet. I'll try some stuff out using MPLAB and then try and get them to replicate the effort with EasyC.

[proegssilb]

I use Eclipse, they use EasyC and Eclipse.

[Alan Anderson]

For FRC, I use MPLab. For other team-related software projects, I often write Tcl programs. I didn't put "Other", because I don't think that Notepad counts as a programming environment. :-)

[SL8]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

For FRC, I use MPLab. For other team-related software projects, I often write Tcl programs. I didn't put "Other", because I don't think that Notepad counts as a programming environment. :-)

In my first post, I actually considered saying that I consider notepad an environment.

[slavik262]

For Robo, I'm using MPLab with WPILib. For fun, Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (mostly Visual Basic.NET and Visaul C++).

[Cow Bell Solo]

When programming our robot I use MPLab and when programming our team's website(http://www.whitebearlakerobotics.com) I use Notpad or Notebook which ever is available on the computer I am using.

[laultima]

Im kinda surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I quickly got sick of the way MPLab displayed code, and after failing to get Eclpise (which I use for Java) to work, I saw a post by a member of team 610 with a link to CodeBlocks.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=62212
All you have to do is copy and paste your mcc18 folder into the folder in the CodeBlocks directory and your good to go. My favorite environment by far.

[bear24rw]

code::blocks ftw!

[SL8]

Specifically, I went over the default code in MPlab, wrote our program in EasyC, and then wrote the program in MPlab. I pretty much had to teach myself, but the white papers in CD were very helpful in getting me started.

I like MPlab generally speaking though.

I would like to mention these three, one on pid loops, the other two on applied programming.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1904

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1740

[afi419]

mplab

[scottanderson]

WPILib in MPLab, with Emacs as the editor (all other editors are but pale imitations of the One True Editor, natch).

We tried EasyC but found it too restrictive.

[BigJ]

We (ususally) edit files in an external editor, compile in MPLab.

[AustinSchuh]

We use VIM and Makefiles under Linux to program the robot, and I use the same setup for any other programing I do. Who needs an IDE when you can have 4 virtual desktops and 7+ xterms at your disposal?

Although this wasn't asked, we use SVN for revision control for both our code and our CAD files (solidworks) for the bot. It makes bringing up a new machine much easier.

[whitetiger0990]

I count notepad as a programming environment. Not a very good one, but hey, you didn't specify it had to be =p


I personally use Vim, to compile I use Make. (I know it wasn't mentioned, but we use Git for versioning)