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+title: Day 2
+image: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4341/36220412572_633c69541d_o_d.jpg
+linkTitle: Tuesday
+date: 2017-08-01
+---
+
+Tuesday is the day we broke it to teams we were taking away their eyes, well, webcams. Apparently this was done in a very comedic way, using pictures and animations, but yet again I was upstairs, again working on the kit. 
+
+Most of the morning was spent finalising the programming tutorial I had to give, and making sure the simulator could be made to work easily on Windows.
+
+## Programming Tutorial
+
+The programming tutorial was split into 2 sections, 1 for teaching the basics of Python, the other for introducing people to kits.
+
+### Basic Python
+
+I've got a lot of experience with Python, having worked with it full time for a number of years, but I'm not necessarily the best to teach it. Instead of spending time attempting to write some lessons, I went to CodeAcademy, selected some of their best Python tutorials, and [noted them down](https://github.com/sourcebots/programming-tutorial/blob/master/basic.md).
+
+### Robot API Tutorial
+
+The idea for the tutorial was to use [PyCharm Edu](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/quickstart/getting_started_educators.html) to create an interactive tutorial guide to our API, so people could play around with it, and get the idea on how to use it, better than any documentation could provide.
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+Due to time constraints with last minute API changes, I was unable to update the tutorial in time. As an alternative, we shipped the [simulator](https://github.com/sourcebots/simulator), which seemed to go down well. This, along with the documentation seemed to give them enough experience to understand how to use our kit.
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+![The Simulator](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4396/36343644246_072a919ddd_o_d.jpg)