Stryke Force Quickstart

This repository gives students a quick start to setting up a FRC robot project in Java. We use powerful GradleRIO to build our code.

Prerequisites

Do these steps once to set up your development computer for FRC Java programming.

Go to www.putty.org click the download here button, install the appropriate (32 vs. 64) version. Open and complete the installation wizard with the default settings.

Java Development Kit

Check to see if Java 8 Java Development Kit (JDK) is installed by running javac -version in a terminal window. If the JDK is installed you will see something similar to:

$ javac -version
javac 1.8.0_77

You can download the JDK here. Select the 64-bit JDK appropriate for your development computer.

IntelliJ IDEA

Download and install the IntelliJ IDEA development environment from here.

Setup

Follow the steps below to use our quickstart repository.

1. Download an archive or fork this repo. Forking will let you practice making changes and committing them to your own GitHub account.
2. Clone the repository you just forked to your development computer.
3. Open a terminal window and change directory to the quickstart directory you just cloned to your development computer.
4. Run ./gradlew idea on macOS/Linux and gradlew idea on Windows to set up the project for IntelliJ. The first time you run this GradleRIO will download a bunch of dependencies.
5. Open quickstart.ipr to open the project in Intellij.

This repository has a small "Hello World" program to test your installation with. Go to the quickstart directory in a terminal window and run:

# lines starting with "$" are the commands you type
$ gradlew build
...some stuff
BUILD SUCCESSFUL

$ java -classpath build/classes/java/main org.strykeforce.quickstart.Robot
Hello from Quickstart!