Data & Controls Onboarding

By the end of this list, you should be in a place where you are more than ready to start work on the car. A lot of this stuff you might have already done or don't need to do if you've dabbled in software development before, but if you're fresh out of cornerstone you might need to go step by step. Go through at your own discretion, but each step is pretty important.

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1) Git

1. Create a GitHub account

2. View the Git 101 Presentation below if you’re not familiar with Git

2) PlatformIO & VSCode

1. Install Visual Studio Code

2. Once installed, open VSCode and install the extension PlatformIO

3. Might also be useful to install Python (preferably v3.10 per Telemetry Hub)

3) Basics & Helpful Tips

If you're interested in learning Python and coding higher level applications...

try to walk through this tutorial

If you do all the exercises you'll get a pretty good understanding of Python

If you're interested in learning C++ and lower level embedded code...

try to walk through this tutorial

This should lay the groundwork for coding with objects, constructors, pointers, etc, especially if you do the exercises for the stuff you don't know. The code really resembles Arduino code at a base level

4) Contribute

1. Clone whatever repository you're going to be working in

i.e. if I want to clone the Embedded_Code repo, I'd go to the green "Code" button above the file structure in the repository and copy the link, so it would be

git clone git@github.com:Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded_Code.git