VEX Programming

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There are a number of different ways to program the VEX microcontroller.

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MPLabs

MicroChip gives away to students and sells the MPLabs IDE. The IDE supports programming in both C and assembly.

Easy-C

Easy-C and Easy-C Pro is the best drag and drop VEX programming tool out there. It allows beginning roboteers to drag motors, sensors and transmitters to the code stream. There is a pretty decent interactive debugger.

RobotC

In 2008 RobotC was released. It is positioned between the MPLab compiler and the drag and drop of Easy-C. The advantage of RobotC is the interactive debugger. It's far more detailed and has more features than Easy-C.

RobotC also works with the Lego Mindstorms system.

WPILibrary

At the center of Easy-C is a linkable library that can be used to do robot functions. The library makes the MPLabs C compiler easier to develop code with.

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