Conditions and Dictionaries

Last week I was involved in some new employee code reviews and pairing interviews. Since most people that apply to ThoughtWorks do our Mars Rover problem, I decided that I should probably give the problem a try. The solution is pretty simple, which is probably why most people select this problem. I happened to be in a programming mood at the time, so I decided to make the problem a little more difficult.

Could I write a solution without an IF statement?

It turns out that I can and the results were very interesting. Here is the first cut of my spin left method before the change over.

// TODO

Here is another deviation with if statements, because you know... switches are smelly.

// TODO

Then here is what I came up with when trying to remove all my conditions.

// TODO

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