I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD. I have been asked
by a company to go and take a C programming test to see how my C skills are.
Apparantly this test is mostly finding errors in small snippets of code but
I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on what kind of things I should
be looking out for. The one area I dont feel confident in is how to declare
arrays of pointers and initialising multi-dimensional arrays.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks
Allan
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"Allan M. Bruce" <al*****@TAKEAW AYdsl.pipex.com > writes: I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD. I have been asked
by a company to go and take a C programming test to see how my C skills are.
Apparantly this test is mostly finding errors in small snippets of code but
I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on what kind of things I should
be looking out for. The one area I dont feel confident in is how to declare
arrays of pointers and initialising multi-dimensional arrays.
<http://www.c-faq.com/>, particularly section 6.
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Allan M. Bruce wrote: I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD. I have been asked
by a company to go and take a C programming test to see how my C skills are.
Apparantly this test is mostly finding errors in small snippets of code but
I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on what kind of things I should
be looking out for. The one area I dont feel confident in is how to declare
arrays of pointers and initialising multi-dimensional arrays.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks
Allan
Hi Allan.
A PhD in what? CS?
My advice would be to read more C books. Declaring arrays of pointers
and initializing multi-dimensional arrays is straightforward .
You can ask specific questions about C here in this newsgroup.
--
Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--- Albert Einstein ---
"Joe Wright" <jo********@com cast.net> wrote in message
news:HL******** *************** *******@comcast .com... Allan M. Bruce wrote: I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD. I have been
asked by a company to go and take a C programming test to see how my C
skills are. Apparantly this test is mostly finding errors in small
snippets of code but I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on what
kind of things I should be looking out for. The one area I dont feel
confident in is how to declare arrays of pointers and initialising
multi-dimensional arrays.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks
Allan
Hi Allan.
A PhD in what? CS?
My advice would be to read more C books. Declaring arrays of pointers and
initializing multi-dimensional arrays is straightforward .
You can ask specific questions about C here in this newsgroup.
My PhD is in Computing Science - more specifically Artificial Intelligence.
Its been a while since I did any C programming, but I am fairly knowledgable
as far as I know. I will dig out the old C books and have a look through
them and then post back any problems I may encounter.
Thanks
Allan
Allan M. Bruce wrote: I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD. I have been asked
by a company to go and take a C programming test to see how my C skills are.
Apparantly this test is mostly finding errors in small snippets of code but
I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on what kind of things I should
be looking out for. The one area I dont feel confident in is how to declare
arrays of pointers and initialising multi-dimensional arrays.
Any advice would be very welcome.
An old favourite is questions about he arguments to printf and scanf.
Have a look through this group's archives and see if you can answer most
of the posted FAQs.
--
Ian Collins.
Allan M. Bruce wrote: "Joe Wright" <jo********@com cast.net> wrote in message
news:HL******** *************** *******@comcast .com... Allan M. Bruce wrote: I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD. I have been
asked by a company to go and take a C programming test to see how my C
skills are. Apparantly this test is mostly finding errors in small
snippets of code but I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on what
kind of things I should be looking out for. The one area I dont feel
confident in is how to declare arrays of pointers and initialising
multi-dimensional arrays.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks
Allan
Hi Allan.
A PhD in what? CS?
My advice would be to read more C books. Declaring arrays of pointers and
initializing multi-dimensional arrays is straightforward .
You can ask specific questions about C here in this newsgroup.
My PhD is in Computing Science - more specifically Artificial Intelligence.
Its been a while since I did any C programming, but I am fairly knowledgable
as far as I know. I will dig out the old C books and have a look through
them and then post back any problems I may encounter.
I'd be curious to know what types of C books you hit along the way to
your dissertation. frank
>> My PhD is in Computing Science - more specifically Artificial
Intelligence. Its been a while since I did any C programming, but I am
fairly knowledgable as far as I know. I will dig out the old C books and
have a look through them and then post back any problems I may encounter.
I'd be curious to know what types of C books you hit along the way to your
dissertation. frank
None! The development was done completely in Java, although coding isnt very
important in a PhD, its more about the ideas...
Allan
Allan M. Bruce wrote: My PhD is in Computing Science - more specifically Artificial
Intelligence . Its been a while since I did any C programming, but I am
fairly knowledgable as far as I know. I will dig out the old C books and
have a look through them and then post back any problems I may encounter.
I'd be curious to know what types of C books you hit along the way to your
dissertatio n. frank
None! The development was done completely in Java, although coding isnt very
important in a PhD, its more about the ideas...
A decent employer should appreciate that and be more interested in your
ability to contribute to their organisation, rather than your intimate
knowledge of C.
--
Ian Collins.
Ian Collins <ia******@hotma il.com> wrote: A decent employer should appreciate that and be more interested in your
ability to contribute to their organisation, rather than your intimate
knowledge of C.
Yes. I think there are plenty of people who have enough familiarity with
language X to pass a test, but nevertheless are bad programmers.
Hiring a C programmer who happens to have memorized every detail about
printf() and scanf() is a bad idea, IMO. My advice to OP: Learn
enough to get an interview, and if they can't figure out that you are
a great programmer who merely is not a C guru, they probably aren't
worth working for.
--
Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if I
ataru(at)cybers pace.org | don't, I need to know. Flames welcome.
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news:HL******** *************** *******@comcast .com... Allan M. Bruce wrote: I am applying for my first jobs after completing my PhD.
A PhD in what? CS?
My PhD is in Computing Science - more specifically Artificial
Intelligence.
AI was a really popular topic in the early 90's. Despite learning some
interesting stuff then, I haven't seen or heard of much since. Most of it
was really primitive: attempting to model neurons, training weighted sum
neural networks, etc. Since you have a PHD in AI, what are the things that
you find most interesting?
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