When programming doesn't get enough time

[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by BrianAtlanta

Even at work you never get enough time to program. Sales and Managers seem to think that programming is easy. If I hear "I JUST want..." Nothing is ever "JUST"

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Brian

Just wanted to put this here as it seems fitting:
http://xkcd.com/1425/

[Chris Hibner]

As Bongle said: simulation is everything. We write simulation wrappers for almost every bit of code we do, and test it on a PC before it ever sees the robot.

The key is to structure your code such that it can be executed on a PC - in other words, don't bury calls to the hardware input reading or output setting functions within each code unit. This will allow you to test your code unit off the robot.

[FrankJ]

Every year I tell the programmers they get the robot first. They program it. Then we build it. They have yet to take me up on the offer so they get what they get.

[MamaSpoldi]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

Just wanted to put this here as it seems fitting:
http://xkcd.com/1425/

Perfect! This is exactly true.

Originally Posted by FrankJ

Every year I tell the programmers they get the robot first. They program it. Then we build it. They have yet to take me up on the offer so they get what they get.

This would be perfectly doable if you would just build a robot capable of exactly what the programmers wrote the code for. LOL