I have an important question

[CUrules12]

I am gonna look into building an autonomous robot for my senior project at school that can detect lights and has a rangefinder and all on it

my question is, will I be able to do this with no programming experience or anything of the sort at all?

[SmAsH]

If you have no experience in this kinda stuff, check out the $50 robot. It could detect lights and has a sharp ir rangefinder upgrade for it:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot.shtml

[z.s.tar.gz]

You will be able to get something working with a 'copy-and-paste' level of programming skill, but if you want to make a good robot, you're going to have to learn to program.

That's just how it is...