Whiteboarding
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Whiteboarding tips for Ruby on Rails Code Fellows
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
developer
So you want to be a
As a developer, you are challenged with hard problems that you don't know the solution for everyday. How are you going to tackle that?
Interviewers are not trying to trick you. They are asking you hard problems to see your problem solving skills. If the questions are easy, they don't get to see that.
Interviewers are not trying to trick you. They are asking you hard problems to see your problem solving skills. If the questions are easy, they don't get to see that.
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Employer Expectations
- You know how to approach problems
- Ask questions
- General knowledge
- Troubleshooting
- You're fun to work with!
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toolkit
Arm your
It may seem like they can ask you anything, but with some basic knowledge you will be armed to tackle the unknown. I went through the beginning of Cracking the Coding Interview to pick out the most important things new Ruby on Rails developers should know.
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Data structures
- ***** ARRAYS *****
- ***** HASHES *****
- Stacks and Queues
- Linked List
- Tree
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practice
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steps
- Ask questions to clarify the problem
- Describe your algorithm - draw examples
- Pseudocode
- Convert to code
- Test by running examples
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tips
- Don't give up
- Make a simple solution work
- Don't worry about the complexity of your solution
- Practice on a whiteboard
- Explain why you are choosing data structures
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Panic mode tips
- Restate the problem
- Write the examples on the board
- Write more examples on the board
- Look for a pattern in examples
- Keep talking
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