Team Structure and Build Schedule

[Thayer McCollum]

Originally Posted by tomy

This year one of our teams mentors is backing to spend more time with his family. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to write up a schedule for the build season. Looking for feedback on what I have so far.

Week 1

Programming:
Look up how to install C++
Look up basic programming tutorials
Install Microsoft visual studio
Cplusplus tutorials

Week 2

Programming:
Cplusplus tutorials
Data types
Functions
Visual Studio examples
Start looking into really programming on the test bed

I'm not going to lie. These first two weeks of programming scare me. I read the other posts and I can understand that you don't have much preseason time, but it seems like you're moving from a different language to C++ this year (since you have to install it). But even if you aren't switching to C++ it seems like you are intending to train your programmers in the first two weeks of the season which seems like a bad idea to me. I don't know all the circumstances of your team but it seems like it could be very easy for your programming to go very wrong.