CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

[oshwm]

On 2 March 2017 07:22:48 GMT+00:00, "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>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.

Then what is the use of asking someone to write a bubble sort (which has been written a million times) - surely you should pick something that hasn't been written before?