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There's a classical test of giving a never seen before programming language (invented for the test), then the candidates need to reason about some code. Never s

• cr0sh 8y ago
  That would be a rather interesting challenge for an interview; I'd love to be able to try it someday. I recently did something similar, that was of my own devising. At one point several years back I wrote down some "code" in my own "shorthand" form; it was meant to implement a library and some test code for a microcontroller project I was contemplating at the time. I basically wrote it in such a fashion so that I was quick to get my main ideas down without being too "wordy" (whether in code or otherwise). Then I put it away, and didn't revisit it again - until recently. A couple of weeks back I found that code again, and looked at it - worried that I wouldn't be able to recall my shorthand or what I was thinking; in short, worried that my ideas would be "lost". I looked over the code, walked thru it in my mind - and after a few minutes it all came back to me, and I was able to understand again what I had originally created (and where I could make improvements as well). It both left me feeling optimistic about the process, as well as a bit excited that I was able to remember it and improve on it - that I didn't have to worry about it, and that my shorthand "pseudo-code" was legitimate enough that it could have been real code for all that it mattered.