Re:Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz?
by pedalpete on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @10:39PM
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My question is, what do these people think they are going to do when they get the job? Or do they actually think they can program, and then realize that they can't?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz?
by dagw on Thursday November 22, 2012 @04:35AM
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I've worked with people who could program in the sense that they knew their language API and knew how to string libraries together in an obvious manner in a way that made the program at least compile. However they where completely lost when they actually had to come up with their own solution to something. If asked to solve FizzBuzz their first step would be to check if the standard library came with a FizzBuzz function, then they'd look around for a third party FizzBuzz library, then they'd use Google to try to find some code on a forum they can blindly copy and paste, and if all that fails they'll make up some excuse as to why they can't work on FizzBuzz right now and hand it off to someone else.
The thing is you can get quite far in programming using that approach.