What the hell do I do with this information?

Perry Winkle · 03-01-2007, 10:25 AM

I really hate looking for a job.

Supposedly there is a shortage of IT workers, something like 40% of new IT jobs go unfilled each year?

I'm a competent programmer, but I may not know the language they want me to use. It's the programming skill, not a particular language skill-set, that they should hire for.

I have 5+ years of near full-time programming experience (between part-time work and a full-time CS course-load), but I'm seriously going to have to look at entry level jobs.

Since 95%+ of the code I've written is proprietary and I haven't done hobby coding in a long time (since before I started college), I don't really have a portfolio to speak of.

I hope this post is incoherent enough for you...

Perry Winkle · 03-01-2007, 10:31 AM

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

There are people claiming to be programmers that can't instantly solve this in code? The writing it down is the only thing that might take a minute.

I'm going to go slam my head into a wall for a few hours.

03-01-2007, 10:25 AM	#1
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	I really hate looking for a job. Supposedly there is a shortage of IT workers, something like 40% of new IT jobs go unfilled each year? I'm a competent programmer, but I may not know the language they want me to use. It's the programming skill, not a particular language skill-set, that they should hire for. I have 5+ years of near full-time programming experience (between part-time work and a full-time CS course-load), but I'm seriously going to have to look at entry level jobs. Since 95%+ of the code I've written is proprietary and I haven't done hobby coding in a long time (since before I started college), I don't really have a portfolio to speak of. I hope this post is incoherent enough for you...

03-01-2007, 10:31 AM	#2
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz". There are people claiming to be programmers that can't instantly solve this in code? The writing it down is the only thing that might take a minute. I'm going to go slam my head into a wall for a few hours.

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