Apple Computer and Labview

[androb4]

Originally Posted by Bpk9p4

it sounds like my team will need to keep using parallels. Any suggestions on a good way to get windows to students. buying a version of windows for everyone wanting to learn LabView on the team is not in are budget due to are software team growing. We are debating moving to java for this reason. We really do not want to though due to are great experiences with Labview

Giving windows to every studio IS very expensive. We just switched to Java this fall for the same reason (not that we have many Macs but that Java is not platform dependent). It's not a bad choice because we actually liked developing in Java; it's a good start for programming in the industry.

[Bpk9p4]

Do you have any good source to learn more about FIRST and java. How hard was the transition?

[Greg McKaskle]

I don't know details, but MS donates Win7 licenses to FIRST. I'm not sure if they are only for the new classmates or can be used on other computers.

https://www.microsoft.com/about/corp...ats-available/

Above URL also seems to be an option. At the bottom it seems that you may simply need to ask.

Greg McKaskle

[Pault]

Originally Posted by Bpk9p4

Do you have any good source to learn more about FIRST and java. How hard was the transition?

This is a fairly good resource that provides overviews from various programming concepts both basic and advanced. Also, the videos on Brad Miller's YouTube channel are awesome for actually learning how to code a robot fairly well, no previous Java experience required. You will notice that there are 2 sets of videos, one of which involves regular Java programming and the other involves java programming with robotbuilder. Robotbuilder is a tool that allows you to put in information about your robot and what you want it to do, and it will generate a good chunk of your code for you based on the information. It makes it so that you do not have to actually type much actual code, just plug in a few numbers into the interface. It can be a bit limiting if you want to do some fancier stuff, but you can always just bypass the robotbuilder and code that part of the robot the old fashioned way. I am a new coder, so I don't have any experience with either method, but from what I know about robotbuilder I would definitely encourage a team just starting with Java to use it.