On 12 Mag, 09:00, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Sat, 10 May 2008 22:12:37 -0300, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > >http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/18td4/comments > > > claims people take a lot of time to write a simple program like this: > > > "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". > > > for i in range(1,101): > > if i%3 == 0 and i%5 != 0: > > print "Fizz" > > elif i%5 == 0 and i%3 != 0: > > print "Buzz" > > elif i%5 == 0 and i%3 == 0: > > print "FizzBuzz" > > else: > > print i > > > is there a better way than my solution? is mine ok? > > Is it correct? Did you get at it in less than 15 minutes? If so, then it's OK. > The original test was not "write the most convoluted algorithm you can think > of", nor "write the best program to solve this". It was a *practical* test: > if you can't get anything remotely working for such a simple problem in 15 > minutes, we're not interested in your services. > > (We used this question last year - some people gave a sensible answer in less > than 5 minutes, but others did not even know how to start) > > -- > Gabriel Genellina- Nascondi testo tra virgolette - > > - Mostra testo tra virgolette -
As a test, I would leave out the last sentence, and see how many people (and how fast) figure out than a number can be multiple of three _and_ five and that the requirement is somehow incomplete ... Ciao ----- FB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
