Programming competition

[gliebowitz]

Originally posted by piotrm
i think most teams are struggling to finish the robot/animation/other on time as it is; adding some kind of programming competition into this equation would probably dramatically reduce the quality of the controls software, the animation, and probably evetything else

I agree with this. I don't really understand how a 'desktop' programming competition would work though.

Robotics is an example of how programming can be applied. PBASIC is also the language of the Basic Stamp microcontroller, which is provided by Innovation First. If for instance, an object-oriented language is used (which would potentially offer a more useful programming experience), a new controller unit would have to be put in place...