On 2 March 2017 07:22:48 GMT+00:00, "James A. Donald" <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: >On 3/2/2017 5:11 PM, oshwm wrote: >> I'd take someone with good imagination who has to look up fine > > details over someone who has a photographic memory and no > > imagination any day. > >These are not tests of rote memorization. Someone who passes them by >rote memorization is cheating. These are tests of ability to write a >simple program. > >You ask someone to write a bubble sort, not because anyone ever needs a > >bubble sort, but because the program you actually need someone to write > >cannot be looked up on the internet.
Then what is the use of asking someone to write a bubble sort (which has been written a million times) - surely you should pick something that hasn't been written before?
