“Introductions and a bit of smalltalk” - I would shit myself if an interviewer started asking about smalltalk… /s
The fuck kind of programming language is “smalltalk”?
It inspired python’s syntax iirc
This actually gives me some confidence in my programming skill level.
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, I just did a coding test for a potential job, and I know I did at least as good as, and likely better than this.
edit: just to prove to myself, I went ahead and wrote the program without looking things up. I’m self-taught so I feel pretty proud. It took about 25 mins, and it works!
I write a lot of PHP for part of my job.
The beauty of PHP is that for any given task, there are always multiple ways to do it, all of which are wrong.
Any sufficiently skilled developer has a bunch of things they hate about the language they use the most, and are happy to tell you about it.
This is a characteristic I unironically keep an eye out for when hiring.