So I was downloading VEX Coding Studio onto my PC last night when I came across something called PROS that says that it is a different version of C that is compatible with V5. My questions are, what is a quick overview of it, is it better than the coding studio, and if I were to use it, can it be directly downloaded into the brain or would I have to download other programs for adaptation purposes?
PROS stands for PROS Robotic Operating System. It was developed by VEX students, unlike Robot Mesh Studios. I believe it is a harder language, but it is better than VCS.
Edit: You don’t need to download anything on the brain in order to use it. You also don’t need an adapter.
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(I didn’t mean to reply to @IsANerd, whoops)
It is much better than VCS. You really shouldn’t be using VCS anyway; it hasn’t been updated since its initial launch almost a year ago and VexCode uses the exact same API. You can even import VCS projects into VexCode. Here is a good resource comparing the different environments. I personally feel that it greatly overstates the difficulty of PROS. After all, it’s still C++, just like VCS, VexCode, and RMS (mostly).
If you are still interested in PROS, I would recommend you check out their getting started guide here. You don’t need to do anything special on the brain, it uploads programs just as easily as VCS.
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How does VexCode compare with VCS and PROS? Would learning it make it any easier to switch from VCS to PROS?
VexCode is basically VCS with an editor that isn’t a pile of trash. All the code is identical, so I wouldn’t really say it makes transitioning easier. It does make the programming experience much better though.
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