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[TimTheGreat]

Originally Posted by FrankenmuthK

Where would I find the simulator

Once you code, in eclipse you can create a runtime environment with 'sim' as the argument, or in terminal, type

python robot.py --sim

[virtuald]

Originally Posted by FrankenmuthK

Where would I find the simulator

What Tim said. Plus, to actually install it, you should install pyfrc. See the website for installation instructions, and you can read about simulator usage there too.

[tcjinaz]

Originally Posted by TimTheGreat

Why do you find it heavy? Is there something wrong with earth's gravitational pull where you live?

It's a resource hog, therefore it places a heavy load on its host, so it makes the world seem like gravity is exceeding 1G

At work, we can pile more Emacs users on a VNC server than Eclipse users.

[Fauge7]

For python you should not use eclipse and probably use some other ide. It is a resource hog but if you have a computer made in the last 3-4 years your should be able to use it. Don't use a classmate to run eclipse and you should be fine.

[Aero]

Originally Posted by Fauge7

For python you should not use eclipse...

I disagree. If you're familiar with Eclipse, it's not a terrible Python IDE, and familiarity will make your development much easier. If you've never used Eclipse or any other Python-supporting IDE, I'd recommend JetBrains' PyCharm. They'll also give you full educational licenses of all their software if you email em and ask!

[mistersands]

Is the free community version of PyCharm sufficient for FRC purposes?

[TimTheGreat]

Yes but you should definitely use eclipse so you can make use of the pyfrc plugins

[x86_4819]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing that the plugins do for you is give you nice pre-configured buttons to launch your code with the various runtime options (run, deploy, sim, etc) -- which you can easily setup run configurations to do this in PyCharm. I have found PyCharm Community edition to work very well, and have used it exclusively over the past FRC season.

[virtuald]

Originally Posted by x86_4819

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing that the plugins do for you is give you nice pre-configured buttons to launch your code with the various runtime options (run, deploy, sim, etc) -- which you can easily setup run configurations to do this in PyCharm. I have found PyCharm Community edition to work very well, and have used it exclusively over the past FRC season.

This is correct. If you're not used to configuring things for yourself, Eclipse is the way to go. However, I've heard good things about PyCharm too.