This is the git repository with code for a 2022 romi example.

The language we will be using is Java (this is totally different from Javascript, if you have ever heard of that). It is an extremely common programing language that you can use to do almost anything - including control a robot. It is one of the most widely used computer languages in the world.

Gradle is what the java world uses to run tasks that the project needs - like building, deploying, etc. It will be our "runner" to do many different tasks.

Everything starts in the src/main/java/frc/robot/Main.java file. That's where the robot first looks when it begins running, and we will connect into that to make it work. Programmers usually use the src/ folder to store the code that they write, to keep it seprate from things like build scripts, tests, and documentation.

These are the steps I went through to get going:

1. Installed the WPILib installer from here: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/zero-to-robot/step-2/wpilib-setup.html
2. Installed git from here: https://git-scm.com/downloads
3. Use a tool like GitHub UI to download this repository: https://desktop.github.com/
4. Run the FRC VS Code link that #1 creaed for you, and then open the repository you downloaded in step #3

I'm still figuring this out. I am reading through this guide to understand it. https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/software/vscode-overview/index.html

This is a good YouTube series on programming the FRC robot in Java: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqolGlJdb9oWsgP4biujl_eTFazESWl8o