Meet your mentors

On FRC Team 2168, we’re lucky to have two awesome mentors dedicated to Programming and Controls. Many teams in FRC compete without having any experienced help in this area.

James Corcoran

  • Programming Lead Mentor
  • Electrical Lead Mentor
  • Software Engineer at EB
  • Volunteering on FRC 2168 since 2008
  • Email : james (at) team2168.org

Kevin Harrilal

  • Control System Lead Mentor
  • System Engineer at EB
  • Volunteering on FRC 2168 since 2008
  • Email: kevin (at) team2168.org

Our goal is to help you gain confidence, meet challenges, and push yourself to meet and exceed your potential! All while programming awesome robots, and learning college level problem solving, mathematics, and algorithms. Please contact either of us at any time through our email, or the FB team page.

You can read more about our BIOS on the team webpage 2168 Mentor Bios

Written on October 5, 2017

Class Syllabus and Schedule

Welcome to the FRC 2168 Intro to Java Course Website

The class is scheduled for 12 weeks. The class will meet from 6pm - 8:30pm with a 5 minute break. Schedule changes will be posted here and on the team facebook group.

Course Schedule and Syllabus

Date Class topic slides code video
Week 1 class 0 Meet & Greet      
Week 2   class 1   Basic Java Intro           class 1   class 1      class 1       
Week 3 class 2 A Java Lang Syntax           class 2   class 2      class 2 A                  
Week 4 class 2 B Java Lang Syntax (cont.)         class 2   class 2      class 2 B                  
Week 5 class 3 A Methods & Objects class 3 class 3 class 3 A
Week 6 class 3 B Methods & Objects (cont.) class 3 class 3 class 3 B
Weeek 7 class 4 Constructors, Imports, & Inheritance class 4   class 4
Week 8 class 5 WPILib & Robot Hardware class 5   class 5
Week 9 class 6 A Drivetrain (Lab)   class 6 Class 6
Week 10 class 6 B Commands & Subsystems (Lab)     class 7
Week 11 class 7 Encoders & Gyros (Lab)      
Week 11 class 8 Pneumatics (Lab)      
Week 12 class 9 Sensors & Buttons (Lab)      
Week 12 class 10 Wrap up & Discussions      
Written on April 3, 2017