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<p>New page: == Last night (Wednesday - Nov 11, 2009)... == our programmer group walked with Chief Roboteer Steve Rhoads through a RobotC competition template. We examined the grammar of &quot;C&quot; (semi-col...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Last night (Wednesday - Nov 11, 2009)... ==<br /> <br /> our programmer group walked with Chief Roboteer Steve Rhoads through a RobotC competition template. We examined the grammar of &quot;C&quot; (semi-colons, sequence, branching, and looping) and the structure of a competition relative to the template.<br /> <br /> Mike Long, DEWBot Programmer, asked about using the 150+ sample programs to assemble a stellar competition program. Using his question as a guide, we copied basic movement code from the &quot;Moving Forward.c&quot; program from the &quot;Basic Movement&quot; folder and driving code from the &quot;Dual Joystick Control.c&quot; program in the &quot;Radio Control Transmitter&quot; folder. We put those lines of code into a copy of the &quot;Vex_Competition_Template.c&quot; program from the &quot;Templates&quot; folder.<br /> <br /> The result? Code that I think might seriously be able to win most beginner-to-intermediate competitions (as long as the machine was mechanically sound).<br /> <br /> Mike was put to the test almost immediately afterward. Foster Schucker, STEM Robotics Chief Roboteer, came over to the programmer area and asked if Steve could program a robot for a demo the next day. Steve said, &quot;No, but Mike can!&quot; Mike put his new skills to the test. He successfully programmed and verified a dual-joystick, dual-transmitter solution for the Protobot (4-motor base, tank drive: Lever arm with intake roller) in moments! GO MIKE!<br /> <br /> That's what I call &quot;Combat Coding!&quot;<br /> <br /> Come next week, and participate in &quot;Combat Coding&quot; our Robot Relics. I will slap down a machine (dual motor, quad-motor, or holonomic drive), specify a game objective, a drive-control type (dual or single joystick) and any associated sensors along with an environmental manipulator.<br /> <br /> You make it work! (I am supposed to only take half the session time, so you need to do this in less than an hour.)<br /> <br /> Happy solutioning!</div>

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