What an insulting and belittling post. As others have pointed out, the Pascal's triangle problem is dependent on intuition regarding the characteristics of the

What an insulting and belittling post. As others have pointed out, the Pascal's triangle problem is dependent on intuition regarding the characteristics of the triangle that happen to be the most useful for solving the problem (in this case, that the sides consist of 1s). Moreover, the statement "Good programmers write code. They don't just mash keys and wait for a compiler to tell them what to fix." is ridiculous: not only are you discounting a very useful way to refactor code (change stuff and let the error messages guide you), but every programmer also makes stupid mistakes, and I don't consider that a measure of programmer quality. Maybe 10% of the quality of a programmer is his or her ability to avoid stupid mistakes in the first place; the other 90% that represents real business value is the ability to understand and diagnose mistakes when they do make them.