Spoiler: Could this be the new software for the FRC 2006?

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Hutch

Perhaps then people should get familiar with C before the season? I can understand why this might be good, but at the same time, it kind of punishes the people who really know what they are doing, IMHO. Besides, part of the FIRST experience is exposing people to things they'd find in the real world, and in the case of programming, that's C and not some drag and drop thing.

Right. You are almost exactly right. This would be a "beginner" thing to help people starting out learn some basic things of C then after there first season they can spend time learning the real stuff for the second season.

I believe you are wrong on the real world thing from what i understand. Most of the time yes its learning the true language like C or whatever and flat out coding. But form what i understand there are places that use things like this all the time. In the REAL WORLD the is a easy way and a hard way. The easy way is a quick solution that you can't do much with and isn't very efficient. The hard way is a time consuming more efficient solution that you can do everything with. Most of the time in the real world you have to deal with the "hard way" a lot more.

In the real world there are times where you know nothing at all and have to learn it on the spot, and most of the times are that way. But then there are other times when you can spend time and learn it well.

This is an example. You have the time to use this program and learn some basic stuff from it. That will start you out. Then you can move on to the real code and stuff in between the first and second season. I believe if everyone does it this way there going to learn so much more and its going to stick in there brain so much better.

Wouldn't you rather have someone learn it and have it stick with them rather than learn it and not stick with them?

Anyway thats my $.02 worth. You can agree or disagree... i am just stating my opinion on how i think students would learn better.