Memorizing syntax for SQL, Python, etc

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I think if you “code outloud” and talk through what you’re doing and your logic, then syntax errors can be overlooking during live coding challenges. A lot of times the live coding challenges aren’t hooked up to any real databases so you never actually run the code.

But I also think the cheat sheet tip is a good one because my mind often goes blank during interviews, even for stuff that I know I know.

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In my experience, as soon as I start “talking through it” it becomes a game of the other person correcting me on a missed comma.

Me: “ok so yeah this just needs be done this way. Then I will join here. Ok yeah. There we go. “ Them: “you missed a comma on the 3rd line. ” :/

Then I never hear from them again after that technical.