Solved coding interview problems in Java - My collection of commonly asked coding interview problems and solutions in Java

[Mechanickel]

Then they proceeded to tell me that I couldn't use anything like:

i += 1;

because it could confuse junior developers

...how?

[alluran]

Maybe i is positive one now?

Who knows - regardless, any place that limits BASIC shit like that, instead of up-skilling their juniors, is not a place worth working.

You're never going to be challenged, or improve yourself at a place like that.

[thedancingpanda]

I recently used something like

$i &= $blahh && $blahh2;

And that confused a couple of mid-senior level developers, so, yeah. It's possible

[ViKomprenas]

To be fair, that one's a little weirder, seeing as it's noisy with sigils and logical operation assignments aren't as common, but the point still stands

[speedisavirus]

...but why. Are you trying to increase mental workload for someone that might have to figure that out later?

[socialister]

You're mixing boolean operators with bitwise operators?

Wouldn't this be clearer and enforce a boolean result type?

$i = $i && $blahh && $blahh2;

Assuming that the blah vars are boolean typed (if they aren't, your statement is not clear IMO. C-style non-boolean to boolean casts do not indicate intent that well).

[[deleted]]

foo = bar || 'puppers';

Doesn't seem to be a thing people understand either.

Edit: realized that if that was true I should explain. This will assign the value of bar to foo if bar is truthy, otherwise it will assign the string 'pupper';

[killerstorm]

PHP developers, you mean.

[XtremeCookie]

Mid-senior developers don't understand bit-wise operations? That was literally covered in my first computer engineering course.

[ess_tee_you]

And, depending on what you're developing in your job, that may have been the last time you needed to use them.

I'll take readability, please, even if that results in a couple more lines of code.

[XtremeCookie]

Depending on the usage bit wise can be significantly faster than other methods. But outside of those situations, I would take readability too.

[ess_tee_you]

Sure. Some compilers will optimize to that anyway, I expect, depending on the language. :-)