I don't think being a rookie team has any effect on the programmers

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Originally Posted by davidthefat

True, but I was a rookie this year, I had no problem learning... Just Look at the $@#$@#$@#$@# API and documents... How is that hard? If you have ANY programming experience, you can easily use the API, its so well named and stuff, I just asked what the things were connected to and Bam, its in the API... People don't realize how important reading documents and the API is... Also the mentors had a "Let all the students do all the work and just assist them" type of mentality, I can say they were great, but they did not needed to help me directly with coding. Just some of my questions on technology

While I once again wouldn't have said it using your words, this post brings up a good point. At least WPILib is well-documented. Many of the veteran team SDKs are not.

Originally Posted by HashemReza

Obviously, you're going to need to show that new member of the community how to do it (adequately) at least once, and then let them find out through experience.

Of course you need to show them how to do it once. What concerns me about many of the veteran frameworks going around is that they take a "black box" strategy; rather than showing rookies how to do it, they try to remove the need for a rookie to learn how to do it. That, IMO, is a poor strategy. Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding how many of the SDKs work; I haven't personally used any of them but have only read their project description pages.