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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions docs/.vitepress/config.mts
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{ text: 'Java Basics', link: '/curriculum/getting-started/java-basics' },
],
},
{
text: 'Java Track (optional depth)',
items: [
{ text: 'Object-Oriented Programming', link: '/curriculum/getting-started/oop-concepts' },
{ text: 'Intermediate Java', link: '/curriculum/getting-started/intermediate-java' },
],
},
{
text: 'Challenges',
items: [
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Welcome to the XBot programming curriculum. You will go from writing your first Java code to making a robot drive itself.

**No programming experience?** Start here. The curriculum assumes you know nothing about programming and teaches you everything step by step.
**No programming experience?** Start here. The curriculum assumes you know nothing about programming and teaches you everything step by step. [Java Basics](getting-started/java-basics) covers the minimum you need to begin, and the [Java track](#java-track) below goes deeper when you want it.

Work through the steps in order. Each challenge builds on the one before it.

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| [Git Introduction](getting-started/git-introduction) | What source control is, and the terms you will see |
| [Clone with GitHub Desktop](getting-started/clone-with-github-desktop) | Getting a copy of a repository onto your computer |

## Java track

[Java Basics](getting-started/java-basics) is deliberately short -- just enough to start driving a robot. These two pages go further, and you can work through them alongside the challenges rather than before them.

| Page | What It Covers |
|------|----------------|
| [Object-Oriented Programming](getting-started/oop-concepts) | Encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction |
| [Intermediate Java](getting-started/intermediate-java) | Generics, lambdas, Optional, collections, streams, enums |

Of the two, get comfortable with **classes and objects** before the [Auto-stopping Collector](challenges/auto-stopping-collector) challenge -- that is the first time you write a class from scratch rather than filling in a method.

## Challenges

Hands-on exercises in the [XbotEdu](https://github.com/Team488/XbotEdu) practice project. Each one has unit tests, so you can check your own work without a physical robot.
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