opencv a place to start

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If I'm reading your suggestion i should test the opencv programming on my Ubuntu partitioned laptop This way i can stay in the java language. I have seen loads of code to procces through i just want to be sure as I'm teaching my self how to use it that I'm not ....hate to say waist..... a bunch of time in a language i will not be using. My trouble is i don't spend enough time in one language to GREAT. Arduino C, Raspberrypi Python, now FRC Java. Do teams often offload the vision to other processors like pi's? Will the gearsbot simulator run vision?

Thank for the start.