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Mars Rover Coding Problem

The document describes a problem involving navigating robotic rovers across a rectangular plateau on Mars. Rovers are controlled with simple string commands of letters representing turns and movements. The input provides the plateau dimensions, initial rover positions and orientations, and movement instructions for each rover. The output should state each rover's final coordinates and heading.

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Mars Rover Coding Problem

The document describes a problem involving navigating robotic rovers across a rectangular plateau on Mars. Rovers are controlled with simple string commands of letters representing turns and movements. The input provides the plateau dimensions, initial rover positions and orientations, and movement instructions for each rover. The output should state each rover's final coordinates and heading.

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Interview Coding Problem

INSTRUCTIONS:
You should not take more than 2 hours to solve this problem. This application will be
run from the commandline with the input file getting passed in as a parameter. The
goal of this exercise is to get an idea of your coding as well as your software design
skills. Your code should be clear and easily readable.

SOLUTION EXPECTED:
Send all source files as well as instructions on how to run the program in one zip file.
Bonus points for submitting the solution as a github or bitbucket repository instead of
sending a zip file.

PROBLEM : MARS ROVERS


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 coordinates
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).
INPUT:
The first 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 first 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 finished sequentially, which means that the second rover won't start
to move until the first one has finished moving.
OUTPUT
The output for each rover should be its final coordinates and heading.
INPUT AND OUTPUT
Test Input:
55
12N
LMLMLMLMM
33E
MMRMMRMRRM
Expected Output:
13N
51E
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