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I actually laughed out loud at: "Improve your Theoretical knowledge" ...followed by... "Learn C" I obviously have a completely different idea in mind when it

• baddox 14y ago
  Where does the article say "computer science" theory?
• mtanski 14y ago
  One of my favorite interview questions is do binary search when the function prototype is this: int bsearch(int *values, size_t len, int term); By the time we finish going through this exercise. I have a pretty good idea how they do with basic algorithms and indirection (pointers). In fact, pointers are a great way of testing a candidates ability to deal with indirection. You can come up with simpler C pointer questions that also do not require tricks but this does the trick for me. And yes, everybody gets binary search wrong, but that's okay. I learn a lot about a candidate when they are doing the exercise.