Create starter guide for new programmers
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- developer-experience, documentation
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing WPILib Zero to Robot guide and the 2025-Robot-Code and coppercore repositories. Document cloning the 401 repositories, expected directory structures, simulator/model setup, additional assets, and required configuration without duplicating WPILib material. Done means a student can prepare a new laptop, run the most advanced 2025 robot simulation, and see changes to both repositories reflected in it.
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Description
As discussed with @aidnem and @avidraccoon today, we need a starter guide for new programmers.
This guide should not repeat/duplicate from WPILib's Zero to Robot. We also assume basic familiarity with Java + Maven.
Instead, it should focus on:
- how to clone 401 repositories and any expected directory structures
- simulator/model setup, including additional assets
- any necessary configurations.
The goal is that a student following the guide would start with a new laptop and end up with an environment in which they can run the most advanced simulation of the 2025 robot code. (Perhaps autonomous?)
As a second step, the guide should explain how to make changes to both 2025-Robot-Code and coppercore and then how to see those changes reflected in the simulation.
Outside of the scope of this guide would be:
- general explanations of robotics concepts
- information that can be found in wpilib (though links would certainly be welcome).
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- No language data
- Stars
- 3
- Forks
- 0
- Avg merge
- 1m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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