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This Wiki contains procedural documentation for the Girls of Steel FRC programmers.

Eclipse Help:

• Programming Environment Set Up

  Includes references to FIRST documents plus extra steps specific to our team.

• Troubleshooting Build Problems

  Solving problems with building projects.

• Debug mode

  Using debug mode in Eclipse to debug (especially robot problems, but really anything).

FRC Programming Help:

• Basics of FRC Commands

  Help with programming commands.

• FRC API

  All the javadoc for all of the FRC code.

• Camera and Vision Processing

  Notes on using computer vision to locate the reflective game markers

Electronics Hardware:

• Status Light Quick Reference

  What do all those blinky lights really mean? Find out here.

• Upgrading Firmware and Setting Up Electronics

  A checklist of steps to upgrade the firmware on the FRC electronics, set up the Wi-Fi radio, and program the CAN motor controllers.

Git

• How to Write Commit Messages

  The information needed when committing code.

• Handy git flow chart

  How to use git from Eclipse.

• What's going on with git?

  What's the story with all those magic keywords?

• The magic of merging

  What is merging, and how do you do it?

• Problems, symptoms, and solutions

  A page for problems you might run into, how to diagnose them, and how to solve them. NOTE: ADD NEW ERROR MESSAGES WHEN YOU HAVE THEM.

(more to come on merging, the history, undoing commits, etc, etc, in a bit.)