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Julie Christopher, Programming Mentor, FRC Team 1640
2011 was my first season with FRC (and FIRST in general).
Education and Work
- I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT.
- I have graduate degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
- My area of research was Natural Language Generation.
- I was a Visiting Assistant Professor for the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems, which is now known as the College of Computing and Digital Media, at DePaul University.
- I taught courses about programming (both in C/C++ and Java), programming language concepts, system analysis and design, and e-commerce technologies.
- I have programmed Websites that use MySQL databases using PHP and Ruby on Rails.
- I am an Adjunct Instructor (part-time) at Delaware County Community College, teaching Introduction to Computer Science and Introduction to Information Technology.
Control Team Information
The Control Team consists of the Electrical and Programming sub-teams. The Control Team is charged with providing motor controllers, sensors, and programming to enable the robot to meet competition goals.
("The Amazing Machine", The Franklin Institute)
Programming Team Information
Programming Language
FRC LabVIEW software has been used for the past three seasons (2010 - 2012).
Code Repository
For the past two seasons (2011 and 2012), the programming team has used Mercurial source control management and Bitbucket for the code repository. Having code in a repository allows the team to share their code even when they do not see each other in person. It also allows the student lead to manage and incorporate code from the rest of the team into the main robot code project.
GitHub is under consideration for the code repository for the 2013 season.