James Stroud wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> En Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:46:54 -0300, Army1987 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>>
>>> "Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
>>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>> On a different tack, from:
>>>> http://tickletux.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems you need to learn how to write a Fizz-Buzz
>>>> program to get a job now-a-days :-)
>>> Something less idiotic? I took longer to type a program to do that
>>> than to
>>> figure out how to do that.
>> We've used it as part of a test a few weeks ago. You'd be surprised on
>> how many guys couldn't write anything remotely sensible.
>>
>> --Gabriel Genellina
>
> py> for i in xrange(1,101):
> ... if not i % 15:
> ... print 'fizzbuzz'
> ... continue
> ... if not i % 5:
> ... print 'buzz'
> ... continue
> ... if not i % 3:
> ... print 'fizz'
> ... else:
> ... print i
> ...
>
> I typed this without so much as hitting delete. Didn't time it but I'm
> guessing less than 2 minutes. How much am I worth a year? (Hopefully
> capitalization is not important for this exercise.)
>
You'd be worth more if you'd used elif and omitted the continue
statements, but for a first solution it's acceptable.
For better readability I'd have used
if i % 5 == 0
rather than
if not i % 5
but that's mostly a stylistic matter.
regards
Steve
regards
Steve
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