Am I shallow that it made me feel good getting all the answers right even though I knew most of the people who tried it would?
Guess the Programming Language
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Re: Guess the Programming Language
#12I think this was too easy. Maybe it should group more similar languages together or something.
The choices offered gave away too much, I was able to pick out languages I've never spent any time looking at, much less coding, from the choices offered. Make me choose from the whole list of 20 or more instead of 3 or 4 each time and I'd get less than half instead of 20/20. Maybe I'm more aware than I give myself credit for, though.
I did the same. "Well it's not C++ and not JS so it must be [language I've never paid attention before]" and yes it was.
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#13somewhere there's a much harder version, it has code that could be c/c++, c#/java, scheme/CL, except for one little distinguishing feature.
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#14I haven't written a line in half of these languages, and I got a perfect score.
I still don't know what this says about the uniqueness of programming languages or the ratio of code reading to code writing in the industry.
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#15A harder quiz: http://helloworldquiz.com/
I like this one much better. There are many more options, and the choices are much more closely related.
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#16I loved the one that somehow looked like BF* but was actually JS ;)
Confusion could arise when doing python in ruby or having some subtle distinction between c and c++, but I guess the test is not made to trick people or diagnose actual language knowledge. Still, lots of fun!
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#17I loved the one that somehow looked like BF * but was actually JS ;) Confusion could arise when doing python in ruby or having some subtle distinction between c and c++, but I guess the test is not made to trick people or diagnose actual language knowledge. Still, lots of fun!
The alert call is what makes that one easy.
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#18A harder quiz: http://helloworldquiz.com/
Agree with you. HelloWordQuiz is more fun and challenges
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#19The php one had a <?php tag at the top of it. Just saying.
That's almost a language requirement. You could use short tags, and begin the file with "<?" :)