> Whiteboarding vs no coding exercises is a false dichotomy. Sorry, it wasn't my intention to suggest those were the only two options (I was attempting to comm

> Whiteboarding vs no coding exercises is a false dichotomy. Sorry, it wasn't my intention to suggest those were the only two options (I was attempting to comment on the benefits of coding exercises, regardless of method). Using a computer is certainly as good or better than a whiteboard. Though one of the bigger downsides to using a computer is there's generally this expectation you need to write "real" code that actually compiles and runs and so the focus becomes as much on writing syntactically correct code as about how you solve the problem (when only the latter has value).