Programming Team Size, and do they all do?

[geeknerd99]

In my experience, too many cooks spoil the broth. To me, programming the robot is a very personal experience, and while it's ok to pass ideas around, there should be one, at most two or three actual code writers. If there's more than one, they shouldn't mess with each other's code.

8 sounds like an extraneous number of programmers to me. Then again, our "programming" group is 10 or so this year, but only 3 of us will actually even be touching competition robot code.

And remember. Programmer is a very relative term. There's a difference between mapping a joystick to a PWM and writing a championship-class autonomous mode.

Likewise, theres a big difference between an angry blinking red light...... and a 6000 dollar robot ripping itself in half because you used the wrong argument somewhere. Believe me, I've almost had the second outcome happen to me before.