IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

goishen said:

It's just a simple GUI address book for now. I thought I had to use regex to solve how to search. Boy was I wrong.

EDIT : Also, what tools are you talking about? About the only tool that I can really find that will be helpful to me, really, is a GUI for youtube-dl.

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Kuro said:

Was introduced to the "Fizzbuzz Problem" by a friend today, who said it's an interview question for coding jobs.

I know basically shit all and was able to do it in 9 lines pretty quickly. I'm pretty sure you can do it in 1 but I don't know enough yet to do so. It concerns me if this is actually a job interview question, unless getting it to 1 line is the point and is significantly more complicated.

I know a couple folks here cautioned against bootcamps, but I ended up signing up for a local one that has a good relationship with the hiring managers in town (Over a 90% hire-rate, going by linked-in). I haven't interviewed for a job in over 6 years, so I figure the job-search help part of the bootcamp will be worthwhile, and the class portion should help me focus a bit more than "grab random Udemy courses," which is what I've been doing so far.

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ShakyJake said:

I should hope the interviewer expects your code to be clear and understandable. Cramming things into 1 line probably won't achieve this.

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Kuro said:

Was introduced to the "Fizzbuzz Problem" by a friend today, who said it's an interview question for coding jobs.

I know basically shit all and was able to do it in 9 lines pretty quickly. I'm pretty sure you can do it in 1 but I don't know enough yet to do so. It concerns me if this is actually a job interview question, unless getting it to 1 line is the point and is significantly more complicated.

I know a couple folks here cautioned against bootcamps, but I ended up signing up for a local one that has a good relationship with the hiring managers in town (Over a 90% hire-rate, going by linked-in). I haven't interviewed for a job in over 6 years, so I figure the job-search help part of the bootcamp will be worthwhile, and the class portion should help me focus a bit more than "grab random Udemy courses," which is what I've been doing so far.

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Neranja said:

I will let you in on some knowledge that is somehow not clearly communicated, but is pretty important to understand for you to succeed in coding jobs, and maybe IT in general.

First, a lemma: Companies (and their managers) really hate it when you are the only one who is able to do something they need done, and they can't replace you with someone else to do your job.

The rest is the obvious conclusion: The goal is to write code that is maintainable and easy to understand, so a different programmer can take over. This is also known as the bus factor.

If you write the solution to the Fizzbuzz problem like you are the running champion in an obfuscated code contest: this will instantly raise flags. Because at the end of the day you are working as a team, and that needs communication. In a lot of ways. Code comments and artefacts are a way of communicating with either a) a different programmer or b) the you in the future who forgot how he even got there.

Would you hire someone that wrote Python code like that?

Python:

import sys

z,x,y= "}{|}A|k{|kA|}=BE1)|BF}))|$}:~pI~/;@Go{H%{&A?|if }:~pJ"\
       "IJ-1~#>=0:GoAG@HG;o{G;%-I&{?|m,kJ,j=C?;/@~o{~D:Gl[c]("\
       ")?","G$p:%~;%~;el!]':p%break~;![':p%#<len(j):~%\n\t\t"\
       "%if c=='%while o%\n%m[k]%+=1%\t%if not %c=j[o]%-=1%sy"\
       "s.std%[0]*64000,0,0,open(sys.argv[1]).read()%if l.has"\
       "_key(c)%in.read(%out.write(chr(%=1%,o".split('%'),"HG"\
       "&%/~!#?}{;$@ABCDEFIJ"

for i in range(len(x)):z=z.replace(y[i],x[i])
z=z.split('|')
for o in range(9):
    exec("def %c():\n\tglobal k,m,o,j\n\t%s\n"%(chr(97+o),z[o]))
l={'>':c,'<':d,'-': b,'+':a,',':e,'.':f,'[':g,']':h}
i()

The solution to what it does is here.

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Neranja said:

I will let you in on some knowledge that is somehow not clearly communicated, but is pretty important to understand for you to succeed in coding jobs, and maybe IT in general.

First, a lemma: Companies (and their managers) really hate it when you are the only one who is able to do something they need done, and they can't replace you with someone else to do your job.

The rest is the obvious conclusion: The goal is to write code that is maintainable and easy to understand, so a different programmer can take over. This is also known as the bus factor.

If you write the solution to the Fizzbuzz problem like you are the running champion in an obfuscated code contest: this will instantly raise flags. Because at the end of the day you are working as a team, and that needs communication. In a lot of ways. Code comments and artefacts are a way of communicating with either a) a different programmer or b) the you in the future who forgot how he even got there.

Would you hire someone that wrote Python code like that?

Python:

import sys

z,x,y= "}{|}A|k{|kA|}=BE1)|BF}))|$}:~pI~/;@Go{H%{&A?|if }:~pJ"\
       "IJ-1~#>=0:GoAG@HG;o{G;%-I&{?|m,kJ,j=C?;/@~o{~D:Gl[c]("\
       ")?","G$p:%~;%~;el!]':p%break~;![':p%#<len(j):~%\n\t\t"\
       "%if c=='%while o%\n%m[k]%+=1%\t%if not %c=j[o]%-=1%sy"\
       "s.std%[0]*64000,0,0,open(sys.argv[1]).read()%if l.has"\
       "_key(c)%in.read(%out.write(chr(%=1%,o".split('%'),"HG"\
       "&%/~!#?}{;$@ABCDEFIJ"

for i in range(len(x)):z=z.replace(y[i],x[i])
z=z.split('|')
for o in range(9):
    exec("def %c():\n\tglobal k,m,o,j\n\t%s\n"%(chr(97+o),z[o]))
l={'>':c,'<':d,'-': b,'+':a,',':e,'.':f,'[':g,']':h}
i()

The solution to what it does is here.

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