Lesson 4
3. Scouting and Strategy
Now, we will learn about scouting and strategy, which is where we will spend 90% of our time during build season.
As important as it is, it is also really fun!
What is Scouting?
Go to this Canva link and go over slides 1–8.
https://canva.link/fhxts6zb7tc4zuhk
What is Strategy?
Go to slide 15 in the same Canva presentation.
In Summary
Scouting is the act of collecting information about teams to determine which teams would be effective to ally with during playoffs.
Strategy is the act of discussing and creating game plans both within the team and with alliance partners to win the match.
Now you may ask:
What does this have to do with programming?
Well, if you read the strategy slide, they hinted at what we will be doing next:
The Scouting App!
Scout Ops
Our scouting app is called Scout Ops.
Our app is programmed in a language called Dart.
You don’t need to know how to code or understand everything that’s in the code yet. For now, just explore and look around the code.
Here is the link to the code for the scouting app:
https://github.com/feds201/feds-central/blob/main/scouting/android/lib/Match_Pages/match/Auton.dart
Scout Ops Demonstrations
By this point, if you are doing this virtually, wait for the next upcoming meeting to ask David for app demonstrations.
If you are at a meeting, go ask David for app demonstrations.
The apps you will see are:
- Scout Ops Android
- Match scouting
- Pit scouting
- Scout Ops Scan
- Scout Ops Dash
Take some time to explore the apps and see what they are used for.
Now that you have a basic idea of the scouting and strategy side of programming, take this quiz to test your knowledge and move on to the next lesson.
If you did not get a score of 9/10 or better, you may retry whenever you want, but I would recommend reviewing the lesson since this is not a graded test and is purely made for you to improve your skills.