Programs for the new FRC platform

[EricVanWyk]

If you have a LabVIEW expert, go with LabVIEW. If you have a C/C++ expert, go with C++. If your expert would end up dominating and not allowing the kids to program, go against their strength.

If you don't have a mentor expert, and you truly have a blank slate to work from, I would personally go with LabVIEW. I've stumbled through teaching C++ and LabVIEW (I'm not an expert in either), and I've found that people completely new to programming pick up LabVIEW quicker. However, that is just anecdotal - I'm sure the pendulum swings both ways.

[frcchile]

Originally Posted by EricVanWyk

If you have a LabVIEW expert, go with LabVIEW. If you have a C/C++ expert, go with C++. If your expert would end up dominating and not allowing the kids to program, go against their strength.

If you don't have a mentor expert, and you truly have a blank slate to work from, I would personally go with LabVIEW. I've stumbled through teaching C++ and LabVIEW (I'm not an expert in either), and I've found that people completely new to programming pick up LabVIEW quicker. However, that is just anecdotal - I'm sure the pendulum swings both ways.

Thank
My team hasn´t an expert member in labview and C/C++, Labview is a new program, the last year we work with other program. Now we be very confused.

you opinion is very important
Thank you for help

[LightWaves1636]

I would go with LabVIEW, although I wish for a zoom feature, I believe less problems will arise from LabVIEW than WindRiver because CRIO was originally intended for LabVIEW and if issues to occur, troubleshooting will go faster if you use the probe feature. Just some past experience of my fellow mentors applies to this as well.

[McGurky]

shes back up!!!

[kyungjin]

Real men/women program in text. <That's sooooo gonna be our club's T-Shirt next year though>

Just kidding...

Our team is going to go a different path with WindRiver (C/C++). It might be a bit difficult to pick up at first (even for an acquainted programmer like myself) because it is pretty heavily reliant on Object Oriented Programming but I'm pretty sure, that once you get used to it, we'll be able to have a bit more freedom in terms of some advanced features and quicker implementation (text versus GUI). Finally for me, maybe I'm just wierd, but it's a lot more simple to envision code through text versus graphics. But that's my personal opinion...