Hybrid Challenge-No Robot Left Behind

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

I think there is a compromise that must be struck between "teaching a rookie everything there is to know about MPLAB and autonomous programming from scratch" vs. "here's a complete MPLAB project - it'll work - download it and go". This is the build season, not the summer and fall where longer term classes and educational sessions can be held. It's crunch time, ladies and gentlemen. If veterans are to assist rookies and the inexperienced NOW, during the build and at the competitions, ANNNNND we hope to preserve our sanity because, ya know, we still have to design and build our robots too, then we're going to have to meet in the middle on this.

I completely agree with this. Learning curves are exponential and unpredictable: if you start with nothing it takes an excessive amount of time to get anywhere. You can give some knowledge and time to ensure understanding to a rookie team and who knows how fast they'll run with it. Chaos theory at work indeed.