Programming - Getting Started

[nehalita]

this helped me soooo much. thank you all. this is our second yr competing and this is my first year in FIRST. i have a java background and a simple C background from 8th grade...but it was so long ago.

I'm the only one in charge of programming so when i was handed all these Cd's and codes and links and websites, i was pretty overwhelmed. i just learned about this today and I've spend the majority of the day looking through posts to answer my Q's

is there anyone here that i can directly e-mail or talk to if i have questions? (warning: I'm like a pet, i demand a lot of attn: i have questions everyday....or close to it)

also, everyone speaks about a "dongle" and i saw the picture and everything. but what exactly IS it?