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Re: Printing like palindrome

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On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 1:27:59 PM UTC-7, Bart wrote:
> On 09/05/2017 11:59, arnuld wrote:
> > Programs works fine, I just wanted suggestions for improvement:
> >
> >
> > /* GlobalEdx interview Question, Real Life Practicial Code
> 
> > void printPalindrome(char c) ;
> 
> If it's for an interview, then I wouldn't call it a palindrome, because 
> it isn't.
> 
> A palindrome is a word or phrase (or sometimes number) which spells out 
> the same thing when the character sequence is reversed (usually ignoring 
> spacing, punctuation and capitalisation).
> 
> This just prints a letter sequence, then in reverse, avoiding 
> duplicating the letter in the middle.
> 
> > int getFirstLetter(char* p, char* pc);
> >
> >
> > int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
> >   char c;
> >   if(2 != argc) {
> 
> Ugly. And the idiom is mainly intended for == not !=.
> 
> >     printf("Please provide 1 argument\n");
> 
> "Please enter a letter A to Z"
> 
> >   }
> >   else
> >     {
> >       if(!getFirstLetter(argv[1], &c)) printPalindrome(c);
> >       else printf("You did not enter a character. Enter uppercase
> > character \n");
> >     }
> >   return 0;
> > }
> >
> > /* If you get more than letter. Just pick up the first letter
> >  *
> >  */
> > int getFirstLetter(char* p, char* pc) {
> >   char temp = *p;
> >
> >   /* What if user puts an int or double, here we handle that ? */
> >   if( ((temp >= 'A') && (temp <= 'Z')) ) {
> >     *pc = temp;
> >     return 0;
> >   }
> >   else return 1;
> >  }
> 
> The program seems to work, but you spend a disproportionate amount of 
> code verifying the input, which is just a letter from A to Z. And it's 
> not verifying it too well as anything is accepted not just a single 
> letter. (It doesn't work for lower case either, but that is slightly 
> trickier.)
> 
> (Also, if you run it on Linux, and enter * or ?, it'll use the name of 
> the first matching file encountered. But you can't do much about that.)
> 
> -- 

For whatever reasons, I've followed this braindead crap. Anyways, I have a hard time believing that these are actual interview questions. This is because, at least in my limited experience, every major software firm that I've interviewed with asked programming questions that were far far more difficult. In some cases, C wasn't always the correct way to solve the problem. Ie, I had to break out the Erlang.

So either this fool is making things up or he is interviewing for a tech position at a software firm located in someone's mothers basement?

Who knows. I could be wrong.

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Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-09 10:59 +0000
  Re: Printing like palindrome Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-09 04:26 -0700
    Re: Printing like palindrome Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-09 14:10 -0500
      Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 12:33 -0700
        Re: Printing like palindrome Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-09 23:05 +0100
          Re: Printing like palindrome raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-05-10 10:25 +0000
            Re: Printing like palindrome Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 11:44 +0100
          Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-10 09:48 -0700
            Re: Printing like palindrome Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 18:59 +0100
        Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-12 07:14 +0000
      Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-12 07:44 +0000
    Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-12 07:20 +0000
      Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-12 08:49 -0700
        Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-14 02:01 +0000
  Re: Printing like palindrome mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-05-09 07:13 -0700
    Re: Printing like palindrome scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-09 14:59 +0000
      Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 08:27 -0700
      Re: Printing like palindrome Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-09 10:40 -0700
  Re: Printing like palindrome scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-09 14:38 +0000
    Re: Printing like palindrome Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-09 22:48 +0100
      Re: Printing like palindrome scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-10 13:21 +0000
        Re: Printing like palindrome Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-10 15:45 +0100
        Re: Printing like palindrome Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-10 10:26 -0700
  Re: Printing like palindrome bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-09 21:28 +0100
    Re: Printing like palindrome raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-05-10 10:27 +0000
    Re: Printing like palindrome Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 10:39 -0700
  Re: Printing like palindrome bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-10 12:54 +0100
  Printing like palindrome asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2017-05-12 02:32 -0700

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