Bruce Eckel: I ask candidates to create an object model of a chicken. This eliminates any problems with uncertainties about the problem domain, because everyone knows what a chicken is. I think it also jars people away from the technical details of a computer. It tests to see if they are capable of thinking about the big picture
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Charles
"The code knows no master." - Chuck Mautz
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers