New to Spike Prime, Pybricks and GitHub

[Team-45231]

Hello FLL community!

We’re going into our 7th season and we’re making some big changes. Our EV3 went kaput halfway through last season so we got a Spike Prime. We’re getting a second one so that’s where my question comes in: what’s the most reliable way to share programming (we’re using Pybricks this year) between computers? Our plan is to have a ‘red’ robot and computer and a ‘blue’ robot and computer so teams of 2 or 3 can work on coding independently.

Thanks!

[jaguilar]

I don't know if there is one best way to manage things, but normally when developing software it's best to upload it to a repository so it can be checked out and deployed from any computer. (Also so it can be backed up!) The association between robot and computer might be useful for asset management but I don't know that it will be helpful in making you more effective at developing software.

[laurensvalk]

While there isn't "Google docs-style" live collaboration, there are a few things you can do to make things easy.

You can back up all programs as a ZIP archive as shown below. This creates timestamped backups that you can save locally. You can upload them back to Pybricks Code as a whole.

You can split code between modules like you can with normal Python using the import statement. If team members can agree which functions they will be working on independently, they can combine it into a bigger program later.

You can also combine whole programs behind your own menu.

[MrGibbage]

Here's a tutorial I have been working on for a while. I have been coaching FLL for several years, and using pybricks for three years. We use python in vscode, and back up everything on github. You might find it helpful.
https://github.com/MrGibbage/fll-pybricks-vscode-tutorial