Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview
by closeparen on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:01PM
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>The questions you research / prep for may be needed at some point in your career.
And most people, most of the time, can and should research them as needed.
>You program for all relevant edge cases, as one might be used at some point.
Yes, because a program doesn't get to pause execution and defer to the human mind to ask "hmm, what do I do in this case?" A programmer does so all day every day.
>are terrible at enumerating edge cases
Any attempt to pre-compute the edge cases of all possible programming situations will be hopelessly inadequate. Enumerating edge cases requires analytical thinking in the moment, essentially the opposite of preparation.
And most people, most of the time, can and should research them as needed.
>You program for all relevant edge cases, as one might be used at some point.
Yes, because a program doesn't get to pause execution and defer to the human mind to ask "hmm, what do I do in this case?" A programmer does so all day every day.
>are terrible at enumerating edge cases
Any attempt to pre-compute the edge cases of all possible programming situations will be hopelessly inadequate. Enumerating edge cases requires analytical thinking in the moment, essentially the opposite of preparation.