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I've been doing a few take-home assessment recently, all of which I've attempted to solve using Haskell. I'm having a good time, and I'm noticing strong and weak points with my Haskell programming. I always attempt to apply any feedback a reviewer gives me, and I'm storing my first drafts, second attempts, and feedback here for now. This recently attempt was for a role at Jane Street.
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# Dotted Squares
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This is my second attempt at solving this problem. I had an hour to solve it the
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first time, and I unfortunately came up short although I made good progress.
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The problem asks to read input from a text file that looks like this:
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```
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1 -- board width
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1 -- board height
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4 -- number of lines of "moves" (below)
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0 0 R -- create a unit vector (0,0) facing right
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0 0 U -- create a unit vector (0,0) facing up
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0 1 L -- create a unit vector (0,1) facing left
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1 1 D -- create a unit vector (1,1) facing down
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```
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After parsing and validating the input, score the outcome a game where players
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one and two alternatively take turns drawing lines on a board. Anytime one of
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the players draws a line that creates a square from existing lines, they get a
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point.
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