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It's not a commentary on interview questions. It's a tutorial on C language rules, with a silly little story to make it more interesting. What everyone is miss
by wisty 15y ago
It's not a commentary on interview questions. It's a tutorial on C language rules, with a silly little story to make it more interesting.
What everyone is missing is how interesting the tutorial is, despite it being about a really dreary topic. I'm reading a book called "Why Don't Students Like School", which goes into some detail about this kind of thing. It's quite good (and really should be, given that it's about how to make education interesting).
- gfodor 15y agoHere, have an upvote. So many people in this thread are missing the forest for the trees here and turning this slide deck into a referendum on interview styles, programming personas, and style. I guess it certainly makes for a nice bike shed, but the point of this is to help you appreciate some of the finer details of writing good C code. I like it.
- wisty 15y agoThat's one of the dangers of "attention grabbers". "What you learn today Johnny?" "Pure sodium goes BOOOM!" "Why's that?" "Um, the teacher said something about chemistry, but we were all just watching the fireworks."