Time Taken: 15 minutes to several hours or days. Specializations: Type or model droid — astromech droid, protocol droid, probe droid. Characters use this skill to program a droid to learn a new skill or task. While droids can "learn" through trial and error, or by drawing conclusions, it is often easier and faster to program the activity into the droid's memory. The programmer must have access to a computer or datapad, which must be jacked directly into the droid's memory for programming.