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Just to be clear, what do you mean by unable to write it? Are the cases where people make a common mistake, but are quickly able to fix it, counted (such as fo
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
Just to be clear, what do you mean by unable to write it?
Are the cases where people make a common mistake, but are quickly able to fix it, counted (such as forgetting to fizz and buzz for certain numbers).
What about cases where the people can code the algorithm, but can't do everything to get a program that will compile. For example, using Visual Studio with C# means some of the basic scaffolding is almost always generated and thus many developers aren't able to recall what that scaffolding is off the top of their heads.
Or is it limited to cases where they just sit there staring at a blank sheet of paper not sure how to proceed?
- geofft 11y agoI'm going off of the standard treatment of the problem, from people who do a ton of interviews: http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/ http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev... My reading is that the scaffolding isn't the problem, writing that loop and conditional, within the margin of error of what compiler errors / an IDE can tell you to fix, is the problem. So essentially yes, they're staring at a blank sheet of paper.