Warp wrote:
> be competent programmers even though they hadn't ever written a single line
> of code.

I usually ask them to print out the prime numbers less than 100 or something.

>   On a side note, interviewers should, on the other hand, be careful with
> what they consider "trivial" assignments. 

Yeah. I had one that was something like "print the lowest N values from a 
binary tree, in C". When's the last time I did recursion in C? And doing it 
over the phone? Bleh.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.

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