Code interviews for a PHP developer roles - eviltoast
  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I would just write down the steps I would take, just some psudocode. It doesn’t have to work, it just has to make sense in the style of the language you’re talking about.

    import random library  
    import any GUI/display libraries required for the outcome desired
    
    build array of integers [1..52] (or 0..51 if you're being fancy)
    for loop 1..1000
           select random number A 1..52 (or 0..51 if you used that above)
           select random number B 1..52 (or 0..51 if you used that above)
           swap elements in the array A and B
    pop first two elements from array
    decode at display time what the two numbers represent in terms of playing cards
    

    If the test requires more than that, then they’re crazy. The syntax doesn’t matter, just that you can logic yourself through the problem.
    You can use the IDE, google, or whatever to fill in the specifics. If you wanted me to do that in literally any programming language, once the psudocode is done, you just spend an hour or so looking up the details.

    • renzev@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      If you wanted me to do that in literally any programming language, once the psudocode is done, you just spend an hour or so looking up the details.

      In some cases, you can even use an AI chatbot as a “pseudocode compiler”. Just tell it to translate your pseudocode to an actual language. I’ve done it for shell scripts a couple of times, works surprisingly well. Not that I would do this at a job interview haha.