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Rovers in Dust Grid Coding Challenge

The document outlines a coding challenge to create a program that simulates the movement of robotic rovers on a rectangular plateau on Mars. It specifies the input format for the plateau's coordinates and the rovers' positions and movement instructions, as well as the expected output showing the final coordinates and headings of the rovers. Additionally, it requires the implementation of unit tests to verify the program's functionality.

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Rovers in Dust Grid Coding Challenge

The document outlines a coding challenge to create a program that simulates the movement of robotic rovers on a rectangular plateau on Mars. It specifies the input format for the plateau's coordinates and the rovers' positions and movement instructions, as well as the expected output showing the final coordinates and headings of the rovers. Additionally, it requires the implementation of unit tests to verify the program's functionality.

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Coding Challenge:

1. Create a program in a language of your expertise to solve the following problem.


2. Manually test the program using the Input and Output provided.
3. Create an Unit Test Class that will take the inputs and check the output from your
program.

The Problem

A squad of robotic rovers are to be landed by NASA on a plateau on Mars. This plateau,
which is curiously rectangular, must be navigated by the rovers so that their on-board
cameras can get a complete view of the surrounding terrain to send back to Earth.

A rover's position and location is represented by a combination of x and y co-ordinates


and a letter representing one of the four cardinal compass points. The plateau is divided
up into a grid to simplify navigation. An example position might be 0, 0, N, which means
the rover is in the bottom left corner and facing North.

In order to control a rover, NASA sends a simple string of letters. The possible letters are
'L', 'R' and 'M'. 'L' and 'R' makes the rover spin 90 degrees left or right respectively,
without moving from its current spot. 'M' means move forward one grid point, and
maintain the same heading.

Assume that the square directly North from (x, y) is (x, y+1).

The rst line of input is the upper-right coordinates of the plateau, the lower-left
coordinates are assumed to be 0,0. The rest of the input is information pertaining to the
rovers that have been deployed. Each rover has two lines of input. The rst line gives the
rover's position, and the second line is a series of instructions telling the rover how to
explore the plateau.

The position is made up of two integers and a letter separated by spaces, corresponding
to the x and y coordinates and the rover's orientation. Each rover will be nished
sequentially, which means that the second rover won't start to move until the rst one has
nished moving.

The output for each rover should be its nal coordinates and heading.

Input

55
12N
LMLMLMLMM
33E
MMRMMRMRRM

Output

13N
51E
fi
fi
fi
fi
fi
fi

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