Re: Interview question

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I bet they're missing the definition of "distinct" letters. Either way,
it's not a very good test for an RPG programmer. It makes sense to me,
especially with the example there.

I think you're right. Most of the failing candidates are probably just
counting the number of letters between the first and last. Which is
more up RPG's alley, but then they should have noticed that their
solution doesn't match up with the given example.

The next part is "write a method". That's Java/script/etc talk. We call
them subprocedures or functions.

I hear you, but I figured (trying to interpret the situation as
positively as possible) that maybe they were just purposely avoiding
terminology that would limit the candidate to a specific RPG
construct.

And, if we're playing the meta-quiz game, then of course the candidate
should be checking with the judge (if possible) or just forging ahead,
but with a comment that "hey, since there are technically no 'methods'
in RPG, I am going to go ahead and write a subprocedure" or whatever.

John Y.