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[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Trick question?

attribute error

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am currently looking for job opportunity and amount of gotcha type question i see in OA is just something else.

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine that’s any fun to deal with.

“You should have known what the intent of the question was. Management won’t know or care about the internals of your code as long as it meets requirements. You have failed this test.”

Or

“You should know that you’re calling a function with invalid parameters. Where did you get your CS degree from again?”

[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“You should have known what the intent of the question was. Management won’t know or care about the internals of your code as long as it meets requirements. You have failed this test.”

“You should know that you’re calling a function with invalid parameters. Where did you get your CS degree from again?”

sigh you can have your ransom, just remove the cameras.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

looked into it, gcse cs uses python in syllabuses.So, most likely

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

no the school can realistically choose any sensible language, the one in the exam question is a pseudocode one that is used only to make the exam questions understandable regardless of which language you studied