MgenGlder / MarsRover

A Mars Rover program that will allow you to move the rover with an array of commands

MarsRover

A Mars Rover program that will allow you to move the rover with an array of commands.

Using TypeScript and Node.js

In order to run, you'll need Node.Js installed on your system. You don't necessarily need to have the typescript compiler installed globally. This was tested and run successfully with Node.js version 9.5.0

Running it

• Navigate to the project folder (where mars.js is located).
• Enter node into your terminal or command prompt to bring up the node REPL
• Enter the following commands into your interactive node interface.

 var Rover = require('./mars');
 var vroom = new Rover.mars({x: 0, y: 0}, 'N');
 vroom.receiveCommands(['F', 'L', 'B']);
 vroom.currentLocation;
 vroom.directionFacing;

You can play around with it, but with the receiveCommands function on vroom you are able to pass any array of movements as an array of capital character commands

At any stage, you have access to currentLocation and directionFacing to view the current location (x, y) of the rover and the direction that the rover is currently facing.