2023_10_03 - Dutton-Christian-Robotics/Learning-to-Code GitHub Wiki

Review

• Kahoot!

Mecanum Wheels

• How they're on the robot is important

Concepts

• DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself
  • more repetitive code = more opportunities for small mistakes
  • more repetitive code = harder to made broad changes
• Writing reusable methods
• Importance of scope
• the importance of case
  • flat/lower case
  • upper case
  • camel case
  • Pascal case
  • snake case
  • kebob case
  • screaming snake
  • screaming kebob

Activities

• what happens if you comment out the property declarations?
• write a "for" loop
• write a "while" loop
• write a "do / while" loop

Concepts

• what if we have multiple opmodes and we want to make a basic change to all?
• Separation of Concerns
  • our opmode is doing two things right now: explaining a robot and using a robot
  • split those two things up and put robot in another class

Activities

• copy DryRobot/etc from repository
• try it out
• code in the strafe methods
• Question: how can we make this EVEN drier?
• Copy over Dryer robot

Concepts

• understanding driver controlled
  • analog controls
  • digital controls
• available controls
  • left_stick_y, left_stick_x, right_stick_y, right_stick_x
    • quirks of the y axis
  • left_trigger, right_trigger
  • left_bumper, right_bumper
  • dpad_up, dpad_down, dpad_left, dpad_right
  • x, y, a, b