Sitll haven't decided on a robot

I thought I would start some of the background information since it doesn't rely on a specific robot. Any suggestions so far? (Obviously it should have some pictures to explain things) Would videos be better?

Perhaps a vote for which robot I should use?

My only suggestion so far is that I'd probably leave the 30+ bullet points of Robocode rule details / formulas for later, or in an appendix. It's going to be boring to a newbie, and without any context, they probably won't retain that info anyway. A few sentences of overview about robot/bullet capabilities would be easier to read and draw them in more. You can link to specific rules in the appendix from the main text as you go, if needed.

As for which robot, I think it's really hard to find any objective answer. I doubt anybody's that familiar with multiple top bots' full source code. And even if some folks are, it's a tiny data set to draw conclusions from. I still say that since you're so much more familiar with Gilgalad, it would take a really compelling reason for me to vote for any other bot. I do think Diamond is pretty well designed, and judging from Skotty's incredibly detailed write-ups of XanderCat, it sounds like XanderCat is too. I don't know that DrussGT is a bad choice, either, besides occasional comments from Skilgannon about how messy the code is.

Perhaps, instead of jumping into a bot with thousands of lines of code, you could start with walk-throughs of a few sample bots and/or Super Sample bots, just to give the reader a basic idea of a robot's code. And, I know you're writing this guide for experienced programmers, but you have to leave something for the noobs. :)