In a post at Coding Horror, based on earlier posts at Imran on Tech and Raganwald, the author parrots what the others state, that programmers can’t program. With lots of exclamation points.
Why make such a breathtakingly grandiose claim? Because of what happens in interviews. It would seem that the originator of this newest fooflah created a series a tests given during the interview process and found:
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In fact, you’ll find a lot of people who don’t necessarily do well when it comes to programming tasks or other complex testing during job interviews. Why? Because the part of your brain that manages complex problem solving tasks is the first that’s more or less scrambled in high stress situations. The more stress, the more scrambled. The more stressed we are, the more our natural defensive mechanisms take over, and the less energy focused into higher cognitive processes.
Oh, one more thing squarely in your wheel house: CVs, interviews, hiring, team selection.
The FizzBuzz thing has a natural entry point for this as FizzBuzz was formulated as a screening problem.
I’ve had enormous success with discussing these issues and whether the attitudes of Atwood et al are ethical or even productive.
It’s great fun to pose thought problems wherein they have to chose between getting a job by random selection vs. not getting a job via a heavy weight process.
I’m not sure of the timing of any second year tutorial stuff on that, but creating a good cross linkage would be great.
In a post at Coding Horror, based on earlier posts at Imran on Tech and Raganwald, the author parrots what the others state, that programmers can’t program. With lots of exclamation points.
Why make such a breathtakingly grandiose claim? Because of what happens in interviews. It would seem that the originator of this newest fooflah created a series a tests given during the interview process and found:
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https://burningbird.net/perfect-example/
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Oh, one more thing squarely in your wheel house: CVs, interviews, hiring, team selection.The FizzBuzz thing has a natural entry point for this as FizzBuzz was formulated as a screening problem.I’ve had enormous success with discussing these issues and whether the attitudes of Atwood et al are ethical or even productive.It’s great fun to pose thought problems wherein they have to chose between getting a job by random selection vs. not getting a job via a heavy weight process.I’m not sure of the timing of any second year tutorial stuff on that, but creating a good cross linkage would be great.