CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Mar 1 23:22:48 PST 2017
On 3/2/2017 5:11 PM, oshwm wrote:
> I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine
> details over someone who has a photographic memory and no
> imagination any day.
These are not tests of rote memorization. Someone who passes them by
rote memorization is cheating. These are tests of ability to write a
simple program.
You ask someone to write a bubble sort, not because anyone ever needs a
bubble sort, but because the program you actually need someone to write
cannot be looked up on the internet.
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