arobot.js

//All code from Haverbeke, Marijn. Elouquent Javascript, Chapter 7. https://eloquentjavascript.net/07_robot.html
//CCL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

//array of roads
const roads = [
  "Alice's House-Bob's House",   "Alice's House-Cabin",
  "Alice's House-Post Office",   "Bob's House-Town Hall",
  "Daria's House-Ernie's House", "Daria's House-Town Hall",
  "Ernie's House-Grete's House", "Grete's House-Farm",
  "Grete's House-Shop",          "Marketplace-Farm",
  "Marketplace-Post Office",     "Marketplace-Shop",
  "Marketplace-Town Hall",       "Shop-Town Hall"
];

//turns roads into an object where every key is location and the property is an array of all other locations directly accessible from that point.
function buildGraph(edges) {
  let graph = Object.create(null);
  function addEdge(from, to) {
    if (graph[from] == null) {
      graph[from] = [to];
    } else {
      graph[from].push(to);
    }
  }
  for (let [from, to] of edges.map(r => r.split("-"))) {
    addEdge(from, to);
    addEdge(to, from);
  }
  return graph;
}
  
const roadGraph = buildGraph(roads);


//creates a state that says:
// - where the robot is
// - where the parcels are
// - where the parcels need to go
//The state contains a method that can be called to move the robot (along with all parcels at it's current location) to a new location.
class VillageState {
  constructor(place, parcels) {
    this.place = place;
    this.parcels = parcels;
  }
  
  move(destination) {
    if (!roadGraph[this.place].includes(destination)) {
      return this;
    } else {
      let parcels = this.parcels.map(p => {
        if (p.place != this.place) return p;
        return {place: destination, address: p.address};
      }).filter(p => p.place != p.address);
      return new VillageState(destination, parcels);
    }
  }  
}

//demonstrates how moving the robot creates a new state without overwriting the old one.
let first = new VillageState(
  "Post Office",
  [{place: "Post Office", address: "Alice's House"}]
);
let next = first.move("Alice's House");

console.log(next.place);
// → Alice's House
console.log(next.parcels);
// → []
console.log(first.place);
// → Post Office

//accepts various arguments and creates output: all the moves that the robot makes, and the total count of those.
function runRobot(state, robot, memory) {
  for (let turn = 0;; turn++) {
    if (state.parcels.length == 0) {
      console.log(`Done in ${turn} turns`);
      break;
    }
    let action = robot(state, memory);
    state = state.move(action.direction);
    memory = action.memory;
    console.log(`Moved to ${action.direction}`);
  }
}

//create instructions for the runRobot function such that the robot moves randomly on every turn, picking up any packages that it finds, and
//dropping off any it is carrying if they happen to be addressed to the location it lands on.

function randomPick(array) {
  let choice = Math.floor(Math.random() * array.length);
  return array[choice];
}

function randomRobot(state) {
  return {direction: randomPick(roadGraph[state.place])};
}

VillageState.random = function(parcelCount = 5) {
  let parcels = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < parcelCount; i++) {
    let address = randomPick(Object.keys(roadGraph));
    let place;
    do {
      place = randomPick(Object.keys(roadGraph));
    } while (place == address);
    parcels.push({place, address});
  }
  return new VillageState("Post Office", parcels);
};

runRobot(VillageState.random(), randomRobot);