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I think articles like this are harmful to new developers. Hearing people make proclamations like these, saying everyone sucks while also not mentioning what it
by melq 7y ago
I think articles like this are harmful to new developers. Hearing people make proclamations like these, saying everyone sucks while also not mentioning what it means to be good, is only going to make people anxious and second guess themselves. As someone who became a developer after studying a non-cs topic in college, I always worry about what skills I might be lacking compared to my peers, and this shit just isn't helpful.
- commandlinefan 7y agoI always thought “fizzbuzz” was sort of an obnoxious “gotcha” sort of test - it’s actually a test of whether or not you're familiar with the “%” operator. I wouldn’t have a problem with it myself, but I can easily imagine spending an awfully long time coding without ever coming across a modulus operation, especially if you didn’t have a CS/math type background. OTOH, I posted on here a few weeks back that I had a co-worker who expected candidates to come up with the binary search algorithm in an interview setting, which I thought was unreasonable, and most of the commenters thought I wasn’t being harsh enough… maybe I have low standards? However, we can talk about overuse of the “singleton pattern” abomination…