its-alive

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Exercise: It's Alive!

Your task for this exercise is to design and implement a Robot class.

A Robot has-a:

• Name
• Position (this should be two dimensional, use x and y coordinates)
• Speed
• Orientation: which direction is the robot facing? To keep this simple, we we limit ourselves to four directions: north, south, east, and west.

To keep things simple, you should consider implementing the position and speed as integers. Consider what data type would be best for the direction - this one might be a little tricky!

A Robot has the following behaviors:

• It can move. Where it ends up depends on its current position, its orientation, and its speed.
• It can rotate. This changes the robot's orientation. Each rotation should be exactly 90 degrees to the left or the right.
• Our Robot can determine how far away it is from another Robot object.
• Our Robot can return a String that contains its name, position, speed, and orientation.

Use this information to design your Robot class. Once you are satisfied with your design, you should implement it and create a simple main method to test your robot's functionality.