Why most dev's dislike answering algorithmic questions?
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Why most dev's dislike answering algorithmic questions?
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#3Because I'm a self-taught web developer, not a computer scientist.
I have accumulated a lot of experience since my first website in 1999, but I would be incapable, literally, of answering "algorithmic questions" or solving fizzbuzz or any of that… which, incidentally, is mostly useless in real life.
Re: Why most dev's dislike answering algorithmic questions?
#4"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book" - Albert Einstein
Re: Why most dev's dislike answering algorithmic questions?
#5Because I'm a self-taught web developer, not a computer scientist. I have accumulated a lot of experience since my first website in 1999, but I would be incapable, literally, of answering "algorithmic questions" or solving fizzbuzz or any of that… which, incidentally, is mostly useless in real life.
I think being unable to solve fizzbuzz goes well beyond not being able to solve tricky graph traversal problems optimally.
It's more on "you have been programming for more than 2 weeks and we can now do an interview"