Re: VoIP Conferencing?

no one answered my most important question: can we start actually coding?.
like very soon. C++ or java; can we start coding?

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Justin Collier <justinjncr@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Luke Cycon <lcycon.lcec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 22:40 -0800, Cyliss Sehguh wrote:
>>
>> > just throwing it out there.... is there anything we can do to really
>> > get going with code before kickoff? we can't touch the robot until
>> > after next saturday because we're driving it around somewhere then,
>> > but after that we can try and upload some code to it. Rus can vouch
>> > for me: I have no idea what it takes to code for a robot (even the
>> > ardunio; all i can do is modify other people's code), but can we start
>> > writing some simple code that we can upload to the robot? I know the
>> > game is revealed on kickoff, so we wont know what we want the robot to
>> > do until then, but there are basic things like tank steering with the
>> > speed controllers and and servo control that we know we will use. let
>> > me know what's possible and I can push to make things available.
>>
>> We could organize some seminars to start teaching the basics of coding
>> if you want.
>>
>> >
>> > oh yeah, luke/others who hopefully watched the code meeting thing
>> > while the rest of use were at FLL: so java or C++? my understanding
>> > still holds that yes, more of us including myself know some java, but
>> > there are more resources for C++, more years of it working, and it
>> > will be "faster" (someone in the club told me that... forget who:
>> > referring to compiling time) . so yea, opinion?
>>
>> Whoever told you it is faster needs to get their facts straight ;) The
>> difference in compile time is negligible, maybe varying by at most 1
>> second.
>>
>> At this point I think we could go Java or C++.  I am fine with either,
>> so I am putting the decision on all of those who are going to be coding
>> this year.
>>
>> --
>> Luke Cycon <lcycon.lcec@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> The vote from me is of course going to be Java, because that is my
> strongest language.
>
>

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