Programming competition

[av11d]

Robotics is a cool field; however, the chance of me going into that field is very slim. I will most likely stay in the computer science field and do programming or IT stuff. I know a lot of people that feel the same way.

I think there is a lack of programming competition in FIRST. Yeah Yeah, there is the PBasic language that we all use to program the robot. I was thinking more along the lines of desktop programming. Like, you have to create an application does "this" and "this" yada yada. There would have to be regulations, but I would hope that you could be able to use any language and IDE you want. The apps could be judged on UI design, speed, and reliability.

I don't know, its just an idea. I just thought it was odd that there is a 3D Animation Competition in a robotics league, but nothing to do with application/desktop programming or certain computer science fields.

Good idea? Bad idea? Comments appreciated