Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz?

Re:Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz? by yen223 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @09:22PM (#4817255)

That is actually a rather clever solution. I guess you could do the same in Python, using itertools.

That said, I guess I should rephrase my question: Is there a simple programming test that can help weed out fakers quickly, which does not involve mathematics? Sort of like "Deploy a simple CRUD app in 15 mins" or something?

This is to address the parent's concern that a lot of web apps out there don't actually require much mathematics.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz? by freework on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @10:30PM (#4817401)

I did a coding interview problem once where the company gave me an API endpoint that spat out JSON representing products, and told me to build a page that displays those objects onto a page with infinite scroll. As you scrolled down to the bottom of the page it would load more products.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz? by a_bonobo on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @11:27PM (#4817494)

For completion's sake, yes you can do that in Python, it's just slightly uglier (as far as I know) using

''.join(filter(None, [a, b]))

and

itertools.cycle([None, None, 'Fizz'])

itertools.cycle([None, None, None, None, 'Buzz'])

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