This was recently posted:
I was wondering if there is any plan to create sub-topics within the forum for sharing ideas and asking questions by programming language. Frequently, I note that the initial response to programming queries is, “What language are you using?”
Not sure how others feel, but I would definitely be willing to answer questions and/or to contribute sample code for working with Modkit within such a sub-forum. It would also give new users another place to find sample code and to ask for help with specific issues, whether they are using Python, Blocky, Modkit, RobotC, etc.
One of the great things about the internet is that their are 100’s of places to get help and there are 1000’s of people willing to help you out. But it helps if you help them help you.
Lets start with the subject line. “Help” Not very good. “Help!!!” Not better, even if there is a sense of urgency. “Motor Problem” better. “Motor Problem - will only turn clockwise” Very good. You get the direction we are going. More info is better.
In the body do three things: 1 - Write a detailed description of what your problem is.
We built a claw bot and as a practice exercise decided to put the arm control on the right up and down buttons and the arm only goes up not down.
Wonderful!!! The more details you can give in the description. Next is to write all the things you did. We are sure you did something more that putting your head down sobbing and then posting here. Did you swap components, check wires, Google the subject? What was the results?
We tried two different motors with the same results. We tested the bad motor as a base wheel motor and it works there, it goes both directions. We looked at the example code and it looks OK.
Nice, so we know it’s not the motor, most likely it’s code of some kind.
Next up tell us your environment. What version of the brain, how many other motors / sensors. Are they all up to date? Which of the many programming languages are you programming in and which version.
We checked all of the software and it’s up to date. We are using RobotC v4.52. The sample program is from their help file
This gives the person reading your question a ton of information. Based on the current problem, it sounds like bad code to me. So you can head off the “can you post your code?” question. Put it in your post. If you start your code with [noparse]
[/noparse] all the robot code up the to the closing [noparse]
[/noparse] will show up in a special font.
//This is a sample of code
while (distance_to_wall < 100)
move_to_wall (100);
And we can all see the code and help you out with it.
The origrinal poster was really asking about more forums. One way to signify that you have a Modkit question or want to put really neat code out is to put that in the title
[Modkit] Really fast line trace code
That way we don’t need to dig through multiple forums and the search function will help we just search on [RobotC] to look for RobotC code.