Yep, Slidell isn't too interesting. NOLA is the place to be tho....

Anyways. Here's my analogy for programming the Mamba: When you buy something new, it comes with a manual. The mfg suggests that you read through it before starting but you don't listen and start anyways. About halfway through, you screw up and have to resort back to the manual.
Thats kinda the scenerio here. Do the programming first so theres no screwing anything up and then wishing you would have programmed it.