newbie-ed-2019

The totally official, definitely real newbie education for the 2019 year

Installing Things

Installing all the necessary components can be quite frustrating, feel free to bring your laptop in and ask an oldbie for help.

Install JDK This lets you compile Java code

Install Visual Studio Visual Studio is the IDE that we use uses beta-test installation, should be updated

Install First Update Suite FIRST Update Suite gives you the proper applications to use robot code Needs to be updated

Install Git Git gives you access to all the git commands, thereby letting you add files to our github repository

Install Labview Labview is a type of coding language that can also be used to program the robot Needs to be updated

Table Of Contents

This will be updated with links as we get further into the unit

1. Intro To Java
2. Terminal Commands
3. HelloWorld.java
4. Variables and Primitive Data Types
5. More Java
   1. Logic (Truth Tables)
   2. Control Flow (aka if statements and loops)
   3. Methods
6. Intro To Objects
7. Instantiating Objects
8. Making Constructors
9. Inheritance(Child and Parent classes and Inheritance)
10. Static vs Non-Static
11. Introduction To Github
12. Intro To Robot Code
13. Subsystems
14. Command-Based Programming

Cheat Sheets

Check out the Cheet Sheets Folder for more

• wpilib documentation
• ctre documentation
• First Competition Guidelines link needs to be updated
• Visual Studio Code Documentation
• Github Cheat Sheet
• Github For Beginners
• Awards in FIRST
• Blay dab