My team and the rest of the teams in my school are using the vex c++ pro and we regard modkit as a bit of a joke, I was wondering if there was any team out there making use of it that can actually say how good it is. But frankly, I think that anything “scratch inspired” is not so great.
Our teams use it a lot, since half of them are 6th graders. Every other experienced member disregarding one person is using standard C++.
This is due to Modkit’s simplicity. Though while other teams are using C++, it is because with is complexity allows more functions to be carried out and in more specific ways. For starting members Modkit is preferred, although C++ is definitely recommended by my standards
Agreed, for some reason, it makes more sense to me to use the text, I personally hate when blocks get messy.
My team has found that mod kit does not work for a competition template, we had to change it all before competition to c++
Really… Perhaps VEX knows how overly simple it is…
Eh, knocking block based programming on one implementation of it is probably a little extreme. Modkit isn’t even the only block based programming language for V5 that’s been released. You might check out our implementation of Blockly on Robot Mesh Studio before you give up on the block-based paradigm completely. It’s definitely got its uses for introductory programming and quickly throwing small programs together. It can even be used for more complicated things like the Minesweeper project in my signature below.
I wasn’t aware of the competition template. Time to research…
Block-based programming I personally don’t think is a joke it enables people that are getting into programming and/or don’t know much to program. I started out as builder and had to become a programmer two years ago because that’s what my team was needing. EasyC was a great start to learning how to code and with the block-based programming I learned how to program in script with the VCS C++.
Modkit does not have a competition template … yet. They have said in this thread that they are working on it.