You need to set up your development system just like setting up the CAD software for mechanical design.
It's obviously the same practice in "software engineering". You and your team analyze the game, come up with a winning stategy, do some experiments, then start designing a robot to implement your strategy. You don't start building your competition robot on day one or even week one. You've probably already heard this if you attend any "Strategy Dictates Design" sessions. RIGHT?).įirst, you must define the problem, then solve it. What I will be offering is a way to break down complex control concepts into simpler solveable challenges that a motivated high school student with little or no experience should be able to implement with help from a mentor (because that is how it works in FIRST. No forums to wade through (everyone complaining about the same thing with no answers). I will provide links to authoratative resources as I find them (in the Quick Reference).
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There are many tutorials and step-by-step instructions on how to install the development environment for this year's control system so I won't duplicate that effort. The choice of platforms and languages may be determined by accountants rather than engineers. However, sometimes that is the way it happens in real life. We are also limited in the choice of programming languages and hardware accessories. In FIRST Robotics, we have no choice in the main control hardware we are allowed to use.
Googling and Pasting other people's code is NOT programming no more than downloading a song from iTunes and pushing the play button makes you a musician. You then have to use the chosen language to express the solution's concepts using data structures and procedures which take advantage of the hardware and libraries (API) that are available. Then choosing the appropriate hardware platform and language with which to implement the solution. Programming is the "art" of understanding a very complex problem well enough to break it down into small, solveable problems. It does NOT mean mastering only one language or creating web pages. It is NOT having a lot of experience hacking around the internet. It is NOT being an expert at configuring an IDE or getting the JRE and JDK working. It is NOT knowing how to wrestle with Windows. If you tell me you are a programmer, I have a certain idea of what that means.
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