What's the shortest FizzBuzz you can write? What language?

Re:What's the shortest FizzBuzz you can write? What language? by jontsai on Saturday September 10, 2011 @01:47AM (#2980936)

I first heard about FizzBuzz from Hackruiter.com and then I got an email from RapLeaf (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2011/09/06/code-golfing-at-the-o...)

It's a very interesting concept to filter out the bad programmers using something simple like FizzBuzz. What do you guys like to give out as programming or interview questions? How effective are they?

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Re:What's the shortest FizzBuzz you can write? What language? by par on Saturday September 10, 2011 @11:12AM (#2981682)

I believe FizzBuzz was first brought to attention by Jeff Atwood in his Coding Horror blog http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/fizzbuzz-the-progra....

When interviewing, we'll generally ask questions about data structures and class design (design a card game), very basic looping and guards (do FizzBuzz), iterative vs. recursive programming (implement Fibonacci using both), and sometimes we will throw some discrete math problems in there too. These questions, coupled with making a strong effort to really get to know the candidate (is this someone you want to spend a lot of time with?) can really help for effective hiring.

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