{"id":296,"date":"2016-02-17T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2016-02-17T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T04:25:47","slug":"mars-rovers-a-coding-problem-solved-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/2016\/02\/17\/mars-rovers-a-coding-problem-solved-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Rovers: A Coding Problem Solved in Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been interviewing for jobs, and was sent a coding problem by one of my interviewers to solve.  I thought I&#8217;d post my solution here, since it illustrates some aspects of my approach to coding.<\/p>\n<p>The problem involves reading in a text file containing remote instructions for Rovers that are landing on Plateaus on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>You can see my solution in Python 3, done with BDD using Mamba, on my public GitHub profile here: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/butler-steve\/marsrovers\">Mars Rovers Solution<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I should probably mention that this is the first thing I&#8217;ve written in Python 3.x, and my first time using python at all in a couple of years.  Writing this little app has reminded me how much I love python!  What a language! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been interviewing for jobs, and was sent a coding problem by one of my interviewers to solve. I thought I&#8217;d post my solution here, since it illustrates some aspects of my approach to coding. The problem involves reading in a text file containing remote instructions for Rovers that are landing on Plateaus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[36,34,32,35,33],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-examples","category-design-details","tag-bdd","tag-coding-problem","tag-mars","tag-python","tag-rovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aminutestime.com\/jobblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}