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Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by uniclaude on Monday April 01, 2013 @10:49PM (#5477388)

I might have interviewed a very different subset of the programming world than you, but I wouldn't make the categorization in this way.

Indeed, I haven't met any programmer who couldn't understand recursion when explained in clear terms, same goes for indirect referencing.

If I had to divide the programmers who really understand algorithmic reasoning into two categories, those would be

- A: those who program because it's their job,

- B: those who program because it's their passion.

I believe this grouping is more helpful to explain differences.

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Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by ig1 on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:10AM (#5478334)

It's a relatively well studied area of programming pedagogy, numerous studies have shown students struggle with those concepts:

https://student.brighton.ac.uk/mod_docs/cmis/past%20papers/c...

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Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by uniclaude on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:49AM (#5478732)

Thank you for the link.

You wrote students, while I meant professional programmers. It's not because some people have a tougher time learning those things (whatever the reason can be) that they have no change to get them by the moment they are active professionals.

This said, if I tried to apply your grouping to the people I have been interviewing last year, I would have approximately 100% of them in one category, hence my comment.

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