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Come on, pointers are easy. In a 45 min interview you could teach someone pointers and still leave time to solve the problem. DP is much less easy to understan
by JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Come on, pointers are easy. In a 45 min interview you could teach someone pointers and still leave time to solve the problem.
DP is much less easy to understand unless one has purposefully studied and solved a lot of DP problems.
I agree with a lot of comments here. Interviewing for DP only nets you people who have studied DP.
- asark 8y agoThere are several "hard" things in CS/software-development that I keep having to convince myself I do, in fact, understand, every time they come up in a discussion like this, because I find them really simple and wonder whether maybe I missed something. One's pointers. I don't get what's so hard about them. I mean I get why they might be tough the first time you're introduced to them but it's exactly the same kind of reasoning/structure that's used all over the place in programming, so if one can't understand pointers I'm not sure how one's programming at all, really.