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- From: scott@kronos.com (Scott Riegelhaupt-Herzig)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Question to test general C knowledge
- Message-ID: <scott.40.724096473@kronos.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 17:54:33 GMT
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- In article <Bz11Iv.DM7@netnews.jhuapl.edu> bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
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- >From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- >Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- >Subject: Re: Question to test general C knowledge
- >Message-ID: <Bz11Iv.DM7@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- >Date: 10 Dec 92 04:52:06 GMT
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- >Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
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- >dmeister@mansci1.UWaterloo.ca (Darren Meister) writes:
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- >>My supervisor is interviewing co-op students for employment who will
- >>have to do some C programming. Now, all of their resumes say that they
- >>know how to program in C. They do not need to be C gods but a strong
- >>knowledge will be required. I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask
- >>this but, if you could ask someone one question to test if they
- >>generally understand C what would it be. Thanks for your responses.
-
- >"What's the difference between = and ==?" ;)
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- >--
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- > Mike Bandy
- > bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- > Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
-
- How about:
- What's the difference between 'X' and "X" ?
-
- Or, one of my favorites:
- Name the four NULLs in C.
-
- (They are, of course, NULL character, NULL pointer, NULL string, and null
- statement.)
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