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For a brief overview, please refer to this post.

At this point, many tutorials start by launching into a “Hello, World” style tutorial, with very little practical basis.

This isn’t the most exciting concept, so let’s try a more practical example. Instead of churning out boring pleasantries, our application is going to do something a bit more interesting…build robots.

Specifically, our application is going to build awesome robots with big guns.

Ok, let’s get started with a narrative description of what we’re going to do.

“Mechs with Big Guns” is a factory that produces large, robotic vehicles designed to shoot other large, robotic vehicles. Robots are composed of several robotic parts, delivered by suppliers. Parts are loaded into a delivery bay, and are transported by worker drones to various rooms; functional parts such as arms, legs, etc., are dispatched to an assembly room. Guns…