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Page that speaks about a programming method. The best feature of this method is that the design supports having the robot doing multiple things at once. Should be a big help in our performance at the challenges. What is Command based programming? WPILib supports a method of writing programs called "Command based programming". Command based programming is a design pattern to help you organize your robot programs. Some of the characteristics of robot programs that might be different from other desktop programs are: Activities happen over time, for example a sequence of steps to shoot a Frisbee or raise an elevator and place a tube on a goal. These activities occur concurrently, that is it might be desirable for an elevator, wrist and gripper to all be moving into a pickup position at the same time to increase robot performance. It is desirable to test the robot mechanisms and activities each individually to help debug your robot. Often the program needs to be augmented with additional autonomous programs at the last minute, perhaps at competitions, so easily extendable code is important. Command based programming supports all these goals easily to make the robot program much simpler than using some less structured technique.

Main entry page to the 2013 Robot Builder Java code generator. We get this tool as part of the Java programming interface to the robot controller. It is graphical code generator written in Java. It will automatically create all the basic java classes and methods that you can edit to create the robot program. It also has built in code for doing the download to the robot. So when you run the code in the Netbean's IDE it will compile and upload the result to the robot. Very cool.

Series of videos showing how to program the robot using the labview programming language.

Low level programming interface to robot hardware. This page references the classes that we are going to need to control all the sensors, actuators, driver station, and event interface. It will show you how to access all the hardware items on the robot.

Good materials for training on the use of the labview program language.

This is the main jump-off point for the JAVA programming language. It has links to the API, Developers guide, Tutorials, and much more.

How to program a encoder

This is the entry point for the 2014 FRC Control System. It has the set-up info for the control system and the different programming languages. It also has a primer on using the vision system..

Programming guide for the latest CAN able motor controllers. This is the PDF Software Reference Manual for the TALON SRX provided by VexPro. Manual dated 02/26/2015.

Detailed Training Program for Maya and Other 3D applications

Quick Start Guide for Labview. It may be helpful for seeing how they plan to make things work using the labview development system.

One of the update for 2014

Here is the 2014 Beta WPLib. Gives us the ability to poke around the 2014 libraries. It really isn't intended for us rookie teams but as we get smarter we may want to review.

There are a lot of scholarships available for First team members. Take a look.

Link to the 2013 controller PDF. This has everything about the control system. 179 pages of good stuff. Hardware, Software, Wiring, Cameras, LabView and more.

JAVA Learning Tools. This is Oracles tutorial site and this page is loaded with lots of links to the other learning resources.

This is 670 pages for the JAVA Language specification. It is a must have if you are learning the JAVA language. It has all the syntax, grammar, statements, classes, interfaces, data types, etc. etc.

2013 FRC JAVA API. This page has all the java API packages, classes, methods, and more. We will probably get a new API for the 2014 challenge.

This page has the JAVA Platform Standard Edition 7 API Specification. This is where you want to go to see all the packages, classes, and methods for JAVA SE 7