This is my solution to a coding exercise I completed that was set by one the UK's leading Digital Studios. I completed it late 2015 during my final year of university whilst applying to their Software Engineering graduate scheme. The code will be modified to keep the company anonymous in case the exercise is used in future years. Basically if you've somehow found this, don't bother copying it! I'm sure there are more elegant solutions!

An API was also provided that had two methods - getdata and submitdata. A GET request to getdata returned a JSON containing the directions the ship made.

Example of what getdata returned:

“Directions”: {[“FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “RIGHT”, “FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “RIGHT”, “FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “LEFT”, “FORWARD”, “RIGHT”, “LEFT”, “LEFT”, “FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “FORWARD”, “LEFT”, “RIGHT”]}

submitdata was used to submit the final x and y co-ordinates of the solution and returned a success or failure message.

The real solution used the API over the network, but I've removed this from the code for obvious reasons. Instead I've inserted the data returned by the API into data.json so the script will still function. Just run navsys.py :)

Company estimated it would take roughly 8 hours, I managed it in roughly 4. Print statements make the code a little messy in my opinion but I wanted the user running it to see what was happening. Overall a fun little exercise and I would welcome any comments on the structure of my code and design choices.