What FIRST did RIGHT...

[Mark McLeod]

Higher-order Baseline Code: I like the attempt to provide standard basic software to teams across the board. There are a lot of teams that don’t have programming mentors to turn to with their questions. Some of the teams are lucky enough to have some very talented students who are really into the core programming, but most are at a loss. Gyros, encoders, accelerometers, scripting, etc. have been in use by a few teams for several years now. It''l be nice to take it up another notch.

Guiding newbies through some fairly sophisticated concepts is difficult from a distance or only one night a week if you're spread thin. Having higher-order common base code for the students to start from should make our job as mentors much easier as well, and there are plenty of challenges remaining for those occasional advanced students.