Programming

Raptacon 3200 Skill Tree - schema-driven draft

Baseline

10 hrs · verified by mentor signoff

Python: Variables and Types

Python: If / Else

Python: Loops

Python: Functions

Python: Classes

Intro to FIRST and WPILib

What FRC/WPILib/RobotPy are, how a robot.py is structured

Novice

direct supervision 25 hrs · verified by mentor signoff

Drive One Side of a Robot

Motor groups, an XboxController, and reading a joystick axis

Build a Drivetrain Subsystem

Organizing motors/sensors into a subsystem class, tank drive

Journeyman

direct supervision 60 hrs · verified by practical test

Arcade Drive and Button Bindings

Second drive interface, switching drive modes on a button press

Basic Autonomous Routines

Time-based (open-loop) autonomous actions

State Machines

Reacting to a sensor (breakbeam) by driving robot/LED state transitions

PID and Closed-Loop Control Basics

Expert

150 hrs · verified by portfolio review · must have certified someone at Tier 1

Vision Processing

Contribute to Robot-2026

Set up the real dev environment, then read and extend a real subsystem and add a command that uses it.

Custom Code for a New Mechanism

Master

300 hrs · verified by portfolio review · must have certified someone at Tier 2

Software Architecture

Designing a reusable abstraction, not just a single feature

Hybrid nodes touching Programming

Controls

+ Journeyman in Electronics

Mechatronics

+ Journeyman in Manufacturing · 1 hrs