Things Learned During Build Season

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Things Learned During Build Season

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22-02-2012, 00:32

MathMaven

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FRC #3175 (Knight Vision)

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Re: Things Learned During Build Season

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Originally Posted by Wing

[D]on't give your head programmer 1 day to debug code. What he will do instead is write 40 lines of crap code just to do a unit test, and use the time between regionals to debug.... a very not so good idea.

A better one: Finish the robot early so that the programmers have time to PROGRAM. Seriously, we need time to write and, more importantly, to test our code. My two years so far were awful because of this, and year three likely will be stressful again.

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