Lesson 2 -- Constants & The frc.robot.info Package

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Lesson Details

Duration: 00:29:14 (29 minutes and 14 seconds)

Topics:

	Constants
	frc.robot.info Package

Description:

	static Java keyword: https://www.w3schools.com/java/java_static.asp
	Statefulness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(computer_science)#Program_state
	Java enum (enumeration): https://www.w3schools.com/java/java_enums.asp
	Java inheritance: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/java/inheritance-in-java/
	WPILib Blue alliance origin: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/software/basic-programming/coordinate-system.html#always-blue-origin
	DC Motors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_motor
	PID (Proportion, Integral, Derivative): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
	Feedforward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_forward_(control)
	Quantization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_(physics)
	Interpolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation
	Extrapolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapolation
	MegaTag2: A localization method used by the Limelight firmware (not used by us because we run PhotonVision on our Limelights).

Timestamps:

	00:00 Introduction
	00:23 Period.java
	02:14 Alliance.java
	04:04 Debug.java
	06:06 Field.java
	07:16 Math.java
	07:56 Motors.java
	09:45 RobotMode.java
	10:16 BuildConstants.java
	10:48 CanIdConstants.java
	12:32 ControllerConstants.java
	14:13 CoordinatorConstants.java
	14:33 PIDFfRecord.java
	15:43 CoordinatorConstants.java
	15:57 DriveConstants.java
	17:15 PID
	18:10 IndexerConstants.java
	18:43 IntakeConstants.java
	19:14 LedConstants.java
	19:47 PdhChannelConstants.java
	20:09 RobotConstants.java
	22:16 ShooterConstants.java
	25:13 VisionConstants.java
	29:08 Outro

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