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I wish job interviewers would catch up with this. They always seem to expect you to have this kind of triva memorized :-(

sfphotoarts 17y ago
there's some truth to that, but if you're interviewing for a job where you'll be doing a lot of CSS and claim you've been doing a lot of CSS, its also pretty reasonable to assume you can remember the things you do every day. I always think its really lame when an interview candidate claims they can't possible show me an example of iterating over a collection in the language they use every day because they don't have intellisense, autocomplete or google.
lacker 17y ago
As a somewhat frequent job interviewer I keep seeing the opposite side. me: "Let's write some code, what's your favorite language?" them: "My favorite? I guess C++" me: "So how about, write a function to find the most common string in a vector of strings." They write something like int MostCommonString(vector v) { for (int s = v[0]; s < n; s++) { int count = s count++ } return count } me: "I see. Well for one, in C++ you need to end each line with a semicolon." them: "Jeez! Interviewers always expect you to have all this trivia memorized!!!"
- jpeterson 17y ago
  Not sure what point you're making here. It doesn't really say anything about a programmer if he/she forgets the semicolons when writing out a C++ function by hand. Especially if this person is constantly juggling many different language syntaxes, some of which have line terminators and some not. The function logic is wrong; yes, that's a problem. But forgetting the semicolons has no significance whatsoever.
  - lacker 17y ago
    Take another look at that code. If someone makes that many mistakes in a short space, then even if any one of those mistakes is forgivable, it reveals that they are not a good programmer.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  I don't think C++ allows you to return variables outside of the scope in which their declarations are active...

sfphotoarts 17y ago

there's some truth to that, but if you're interviewing for a job where you'll be doing a lot of CSS and claim you've been doing a lot of CSS, its also pretty reasonable to assume you can remember the things you do every day. I always think its really lame when an interview candidate claims they can't possible show me an example of iterating over a collection in the language they use every day because they don't have intellisense, autocomplete or google.

lacker 17y ago

As a somewhat frequent job interviewer I keep seeing the opposite side. me: "Let's write some code, what's your favorite language?" them: "My favorite? I guess C++" me: "So how about, write a function to find the most common string in a vector of strings." They write something like int MostCommonString(vector v) { for (int s = v[0]; s < n; s++) { int count = s count++ } return count } me: "I see. Well for one, in C++ you need to end each line with a semicolon." them: "Jeez! Interviewers always expect you to have all this trivia memorized!!!"

jpeterson 17y ago
Not sure what point you're making here. It doesn't really say anything about a programmer if he/she forgets the semicolons when writing out a C++ function by hand. Especially if this person is constantly juggling many different language syntaxes, some of which have line terminators and some not. The function logic is wrong; yes, that's a problem. But forgetting the semicolons has no significance whatsoever.
- lacker 17y ago
  Take another look at that code. If someone makes that many mistakes in a short space, then even if any one of those mistakes is forgivable, it reveals that they are not a good programmer.
jacquesm 17y ago
I don't think C++ allows you to return variables outside of the scope in which their declarations are active...