Aggregate Java resources into Wiki

derickson2402 commented 3 years ago

Pull together as many learning resources as possible, and turn them into wiki pages.

derickson2402 commented 3 years ago

Migrated from JHS-Viking-Robotics/LabVIEW-Setup-Guide Issue 4

Feel free to add links and add to this list:

Team 3255 Java Tutorial
Codecademy Java Tutorial (recommended by FRC)
A real life, physical, paper book (also recommended by FRC, and probably your english teacher too 😄)
Hackr.io intro to Java tutorial
VS Code Download (note that VS Code is only officially supported IDE for FRC)
WPI Lib Java official docs
WPI Lib official GitHub
CTRE Phoenix official docs
CTRE Phoenix official GitHub
CTRE Phoenix Java examples

How to setup on macOS:

Download the WPILib installer (scroll to bottom to download the WPILib_macOS installer). Click on the .dmg, run WPILibInstaller, and follow the prompts to install the WPI library
Download the CTRE Phoenix Framework Installer to install the Phoenix Framework

How to setup on Windows 10

Download the WPILib installer (scroll to bottom to download the WPILib_Windows64 installer). Right click the .iso, select Mount, and run WPILibInstaller.exe. Follow the prompts to install the WPI library
Download the CTRE Phoenix Framework Installer to install the Phoenix Framework

How to manually setup Java on macOS

Install Homebrew (follow the instructions here
Run brew tap adoptopenjdk/openjdk to add the official JDK source for Homebrew
Run brew install java visual-studio-code to install java and VS Code Getting Started with Java for FRC
Make a Codecademy account and start their Learn Java course
Install WPI Lib, Phoenix Lib, Git, and Sourcetree on your computer
Read through Team 3255's Java Tutorial

derickson2402 commented 3 years ago

Migrated from JHS-Viking-Robotics/LabVIEW-Setup-Guide Issue 4

Add some docs on lambda's and instantiating without defining, which are concepts not covered in the training course but are commonly used in FRC code and in examples.