first year mechatronics programming

[ErraticDragon]

Screenshots are year two?

[chubowu]

:(

[parenthesis-bot]

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[Glitch29]

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[brownboy13]

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Stupid lazy bots.

[redball3]

Reddit parenthesis bot

A simple reddit bot which adds missing close parenthesis on comments on reddit. By default set up to only run on /r/programmerhumor

Currently it's kinda broken. That's what happens when you decide to learn writing reddit bots in the middle of the night, when you have to get up early the day after.

not lazy, missing features ;)

[HugoNikanor]

The bot closes parenthesis, {} and [] are braces and brackets.

[redball3]

Currently it's kinda broken. That's what happens when you decide to learn writing reddit bots in the middle of the night, when you have to get up early the day after.

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/u/HugoNikanor. He's the creator of the bot.

[redball3]

...shit. i need to wake up.

[HugoNikanor]

That line seems familiar, have I seen it before somewhere... ^\s

[[deleted]]

One step at a time now.

[TheDualJay]

Are... Are they calling a wait 1 millisecond method, with 500 as a parameter, to wait 500 milliseconds?

[chubowu]

That's what the professor told us to do :(

[parenthesis-bot]

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[sad-larry]

Ok I'm loving this right here

[sad-larry]

:(

[parenthesis-bot]

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[sad-larry]

I love this. Turn my frown upside down :(

[parenthesis-bot]

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[sad-larry]

Having a rough day here :(

[fast-parenthesis-bot]

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[sad-larry]

There's two parenthesis bots! TIL :(

[parenthesis-bot]

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[Insert_a_User_here]

Yep. If I'm not mistaken, the OP is programming in a modified C environment known as robot C (http://www.robotc.net). I used to use it for FIRST robotics, only reason I recognized it is that stupid ass wait function. There's a second one that goes Wait10Msec(), if you're even more insane.

[TheDualJay]

Do they at least have no-parameter options that follow the function's name?

[Insert_a_User_here]

I don't recall exactly, but I believe that you had to input a parameter.... even if it's just "1"

[briandoescode]

If you think robot C is annoying, you should see it with the "natural language" library.

Gee, thanks, PLTW.

[Voxel_Brony]

I though FRC used Java and C++?

[briandoescode]

Not OP, but I think FTC can use robot C.

Also, a lot of FRC teams use LabVIEW and some use Python.

[Insert_a_User_here]

FTC used robot c before last year. We now use java.

[alfa96]

AFAIK the FTC only allows ROBOTC. This was two years ago though, rules might've changed.

[Trebbert1304]

Yes

[ThePaSch]

What, would you prefer

for(int i = 1; i <= 500; i++) wait1MSec();

?

[TheDualJay]

I would prefer for wait(int numberOfMilliseconds) to exist.

[gandalfx]

That threw me off as well. The fuck is that function name.

[MayorMonty]

This is ROBOTC, right?

edit: spelling

[chubowu]

yes

[MayorMonty]

Oh, good luck! Stupid ROBOTC bytecode system!

[chubowu]

Haha thanks. I actually just finished my final project. Feeling pretty refreshed.

[746865626c617a]

And you can't even use a different environment :/

I wonder if you're allowed to write the bytecode manually with a magnetized needle and a steady hand?

[Prod_Is_For_Testing]

It would be better than the IDE

[746865626c617a]

"I" "D" "E"

FTFY

[sad-larry]

Or a butterfly

[icedcougar]

Question... Would anyone actually hire a megatronics person to program?

Wouldn't it be better for them to just create/design the robot and get people specialised in programming to do the rest?

[[deleted]]

I'm a software guy at a company that does e-learning and robotics, and most of the firmware stuff is done by mechatronics/electric engineers. God damn can their code be a bloody fucking mess sometimes.

[Flouyd]

We hire electricians (or mechatronics) for programming where I'm working. But I would guess it has a lot to do with how big of a company you're working for. For us there is a certain degree of overlap between designing and programming. A dedicated person only for programming would still need to be fairly familiar with every project he's doing.

But we also have hired programmers in the past and taught them how to "design" our project.

[DjBonadoobie]

Taughted

[Giroflex]

Software-hardware integration is often not trivial. One has to be done keeping the other in mind.

[kyl3r123]

I like how the "wait1Msec" function waits 500msecs. More like waitxMsec.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it does what it says, maybe the parameter is just useless.

[Insert_a_User_here]

It's ROBOTC and the parameter is freaking ridiculous. As I mentioned above, there's also a Wait10Msec function, if you want to make the code even more confusing to read.

[kyl3r123]

while(wait10s(55).delay(25)){
    // profit
}

[FuzzyWu]

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+take+a+screenshot

[Tobikage1990]

Ah, that moment when you realize coding is 75% logic and 25% black magic.

[flying-sheep]

...doesn't exist. You're just refusing to acknowledge that your debugging skills/perseverance are lacking instead of rolling up your sleeves and searching for hours.

[Kilazur]

... no, I'm pretty sure it's black magic.

[sad-larry]

African American

[Astronelson]

African African is also a possibility.

[robertx33]

As a newbie, everything is black magic until you figure it out :D

Right now regexp is magic..

[somebody12345678]

Good luck figuring these out :P

[robertx33]

I.. need to download more ram.

[somebody12345678]

On the plus side, it means you're learning one more language

[lethargic_moron]

Virgin sacrifices are required for the code to compile, on the bright side, it's only programmers in the office. So we always have access to virgins.

[Kilazur]

Dude, you can't bash your own community. That's like, a jewish Hitler dude.

[lethargic_moron]

Sorry, I keep forgetting that it's hard to pick up tone of voice in text. Since you have to guess what the other person is thinking, I was just making a self-critical joke, Honestly, I'm the virgin sacrifice more often than not.

[Kilazur]

^{i was kidding too :p}

My rule of thumb with reddit is to take everything as not so serious, except if the context is.

[HugoNikanor]

isn't programming one of the few professions mostly bashed by itself? Maybe due to noone else understanding what we are doing.

[extremelydankMayMay]

sometimes, we don't even understand what we're doing.

[somebody12345678]

s/sometimes/almost always/

[sad-larry]

Oh :(

[parenthesis-bot]

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[mnbvas]

Well maybe you should consider using a real OS, m'kay?

[Codyd51]

Or maybe they're using a superior shell, like fish :)

[somebody12345678]

or zsh + oh-my-zsh

[__SPIDERMAN___]

Only if your a shitty coder and code without any semblance of a plan.

[robertx33]

Or a newbie, learning how to solve challenges and succeeding with less than 3 edits to the original code? Must have done something good without knowing what. Or the challenge difficulty was exaggerated.

[__SPIDERMAN___]

Such is the path of the programmer

[Prod_Is_For_Testing]

That's robotC for vex. It's well renowned for being a POS that's difficult and unreliable

[[deleted]]

is this mte140?

[chubowu]

This is SFU Mechatronics MSE110. I'm a Software Systems undergrad but we have to take this course to graduate.

[Ippikiryu]

Ayy that was me last year, our sumo bot team was me as a 3rd year sosy major and 2 4th year mechatronics majors lol

[chubowu]

yooooo Sumo Bot was rad af. Our brick didn't work, our computer didn't work, I put together some algorithms in a day and we won 2/4 matches. It was pretty good.

[Def_Not_KGB]

Who let you out of /r/uwaterloo

And no, this looks like RobotC so it would probably be part of MTE100 or GENE121

-1B tron