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Those white board stuff reminds me when I was a CS student in the beginning of the 90's in France. We had our exams on paper. And believe me, writing LISP on p
by Xoros 9y ago
Those white board stuff reminds me when I was a CS student in the beginning of the 90's in France.
We had our exams on paper. And believe me, writing LISP on paper, knowing if you forgot one parenthesis you got 0 point ("if I type it on a computer, it fails !"), was pretty and unnecessary stressful.
So I relate with candidate facing that. Dude, on your day to day work, you WILL have a computer to check those !
How can you decently check those skill on a white board ? I totally agree with what's stated in this post.
- morgante 9y agoNo good interviewer is grading whiteboard coding on whether you forgot a parenthesis or semicolon.
- e12e 9y agoIf you think writing lisp by hand is bad, try implementing a linked list interface in java on paper... shudder. (in fairness, we were sanely graded, minor syntax errors didn't subtract terribly from the grade...).
- metaobject 9y agoWriting code for tests, on paper, has been a thing in CS for quite awhile. While writing lisp for tests, I used to sometimes write the code with no parens (using indentation to denote nesting). Then I'd go back and add parens where appropriate. defun add-pos-only v1 v2 let sum 0 if and > v1 0 > v2 0 + v1 v2 nil