13 posts tagged with "training season 2023"

We are doing things again in Programming, which means that this can have the normal format again! But first a bit of housekeeping: Yes, the team retreat happened this weekend. Yes, it is very important to the team. No, I will not be covering the events here, because very little of it was relevant specifically and directly to Programming.

• Java Courses (Zack, Davie, Griffin, AKA the New New Trio): The new students are working on Java. If you're wondering why Serena isn't, we'll get to that.
• Design Doc (Rowan and I): A design document is a document that has all of the design details (stuff like hardware, software, and the construction process), used to help Build and Programming coordinate without the need for large meetings. This one is for an elevator some of us older students are working on while the new students do Minne Trials.
• Elevator Code (Rowan): Rowan made code for the afformentioned elevator.
• Swerve Work (Serena): As Serena was the programming captain on their old FRC team before transfering to NoMythic, she is learning Java by making a swerve drive rather than doing coding tutorials like the new students.
• Minne Trials Planning (Xiaohan): He was at the design meeting with the new students, because he and I are going to be working on the code for Minne Trials later in the year.

When I say I need an heir, I mean I need someone else who can do these. I need to do actually coding things.

Summary of things that happened during September and the first October practice:

• ETT nights happened. We did the board demo, robot demo, and code demo, not in that exact order.
• The team now has new members. Programming got four and a half new people. I say half because Xiohan transfered from Build and Quinn transferred out to Ops. The new people are Serena, Zack, Davie, and Griffin.
• Kickoff for the Minne Trials (personal note: can the Turtle/Minne Trials/TEST please pick a name and stick to it) happened. The game is about corn silos. As usual, please look elsewhere for actual game rules. Xiohan and I attended.
• Rowan has started elevator code.
• The new students are learning Python.

Hello there ladies and gentlemen and others! We are back in the official training season. I was the only student here until about 7:30. Things that happened today:

• Board Demo Code (Me): We are planning on running a motor during Experience the Team night, and decided to fish out the old board code so we could run a Sparkmax. After several hours of trying to update multi-year-old-code, I gave up and wrote new board code.
• Item Sorting (Rowan, Emilio "[M]"): For the record, anyone with the "[M]" tag is a mentor, and generally won't be credited unless they did the majority of the work. The electronics still needed inventorying, and these two did it.
• Python Exampling (Chris "[M]"): Chris had to make the python code for EtT nights because I was busy and Rowan was gone.

Anyone who has been around the site for a while will notice that some names are gone. This is deliberate. Anyone who has left the team will have their name replaced by their title. The only way to find their actual name is to go into the code, look for the file 'TRUENAME', and read it.