Organizing your programming

[remulasce]

Originally Posted by Carl C

Git is terrible; use git.

100%. It's a total pain both to teach new programmers, and for the programmers themselves. But it must be done.

Requirement: At least one person reachable by your team must be actually comfortable with git. That sounds like a good job for you!

relevant: xkcd.com/1597/

From experience, I can tell you the most helpful thing you can do now is make sure your programmers are programming OUTSIDE of robotics. Team teaching tools are nice when you need to onboard somebody during the 6 weeks, but you're going to end up reteaching the same material to the same people every year when they forget it all over summer.

It doesn't matter what they're programming. Games are a nice standby, python + pygame is well documented for newbies. But teaching basic programming only during robotics time is an endless battle.