Appendices
Appendices
Reference, method, and worked examples — the material that supports the narrative without interrupting it.
Appendix A — How We Developed This — the method behind Parts I and IV: how the corpus was read, the eight-dimension rubric, the maturity ladder, what the architecture predicts, and the foundation-first build order.
Appendix B — Glossary & naming decisions — faceplate, component, seam, IO line,
u/x, estimate vs status, and the naming rationale.
Appendices
Reference, method, and worked examples — the material that supports the narrative without interrupting it.
Appendix A — How We Developed This — the method behind Parts I and IV: how the corpus was read, the eight-dimension rubric, the maturity ladder, what the architecture predicts, and the foundation-first build order.
Appendix B — Glossary & naming decisions — faceplate, component, seam, IO line,
u/x, estimate vs status, and the naming rationale.Appendix C — Source-document crosswalk — every
knowledge/source mapped to the chapter(s) that absorb it, so nothing is orphaned.Appendix D — Reviewing for the seams — the architecture-first code review checklist: the five invariants, S0–S3 severity, and principles P1–P10.
Appendix E — The minimal worked example — the four-channel faceplate stacked three altitudes high in the smallest robot that has all the layers: two drive motors, a color sensor, and a planner that stops on the line.
Lessons from Outside — what the broader robotics world treats as table stakes, and what FRC mostly skips — including the generators chapter.
The rubric in full, the San Diego scoresheet, and the Patribots case study are no longer appendices — they now live together in the Scoring Elite Code section. Other advanced topics moved into Part I ch. 9.