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Improving analysis skills
I am a software engineer with a couple of years of experience. However I feel my problem solving skills need to be improved. To put in crude terms given facts A and fact B I have difficulty in …
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Importance of algorithms in a telephonic interview
I had taken a telephonic interview and the interviewer has given some problem for which I was supposed to give him the algorithm. Since its was a telephonic interview and I had no paper or pen, so I …
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How do you improve your problem solving skills? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How does one improve one's problem-solving ability?
I'm focusing on becoming a better developer and one area I'd like to focus on is improving my problem solving …
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How to prevent misunderstanding in this situation? [closed]
Sometimes given a programming problem you come up with a solution from nowhere. Maybe you have a knack of programming.
I have often faced this problem at my workplace. I come up with solutions to …
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How can one find software development work that involves directly the final end user?
I've worked in software development for 15 years and, while there have been signficant personal achievements and a lot of experience, I've always felt detached from the man/woman-on-the-street, the …
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Importance For Soving a problem or for implementing it
As a final year student in my engineering(CS), i have this stupid question! I guess i'm capable of solving problems with my pencil and paper easily. But i find more time to implement this in …
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Steps to solve or approach towards a solution
Please share your experience about how do you approach towards a solution or solve a problem. Include description about what ever tools you use,sources you follow,algorithms you choose etc.
It would …
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Best way to break down overwhelming code into mangeable chunks?
I'm continually becoming overwhelmed by large projects, once they reach a certain level of complexity. Once I reach a certain point in a project, my progress slows to a crawl and I find myself …
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Writing code vs Figuring out the answer to a problem?
Why is writing code when you encounter a tricky problem considered "bad" programming practice? And why is thinking a problem completely through on paper or in your head before you write code "good" ? …
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Why does not thinking about a bug sometimes help you solve it?
Yesterday I spent a good part of the afternoon trying to fix a bug, which I thought to be trivial. I was going around in circles, not having a clue what was wrong. Rewriting large parts of the code. …
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Where one can find problem sets from Facebook hacker cup?
I want to tackle them on my free time, BUt I was unable to compete and I really enjoy a good crack from time to time? Can anyone post a link or maybe even the questions themselves? Please no …
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What are the great unsolved challenges (or recent promising breakthroughs) of enterprise programming?
My experience with programming came from a field, computational linguistics, where there LOTS of unsolved problems (computationally modeling natural language, or having effective statistical …
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Good source for interview-style coding problems for entry/intermediate developers?
I have taught myself to code over the past few years and do not have a computer science degree. As a result, I lack experience from many things, such as the basic homework/test questions many CS …
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How would you refactor nested IF Statements?
I was cruising around the programming blogosphere when I happened upon this post about GOTO's:
http://giuliozambon.blogspot.com/2010/12/programmers-tabu.html
Here the writer talks about how "one …
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Dealing with frustration when things don't work
You ever try to implement something simple but for some strange reason it doesn't work.
So you try a possible solution but then something else doesn't work. You keep trying different workarounds but …
