I wonder if day length is given separately in a table prior to the question? I’m not sure what they wanted except maybe seconds?
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Conversations about language aside, the error is that "Monday" is a string with a length of 6.
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I’m assuming they wanted the literal length of the string
That seems to be the consensus.
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It's the length of the string. The number of characters is 6. It's a play on words and a question.
Oh wow. Thanks
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I think this is a good question and answer in the sense that it reveals a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the student - exactly what you hope an exam would do! (Except for how this seems to combine javascript's .length and python's print statement - maybe there is a language like this though - or 'print' was a javascript function defined elsewhere).
This reminds me once of when I was a TA in a computer science course in the computer lab. Students were working on a "connect 4" game - drop a token in a column, try to connect 4. A student asked me, while writing the drop function, if he would have to write code to ensure that the token "fell" to bottom of the board, or if the computer would understand what it was trying to do. Excellent question! Because the question connects to a huge misunderstanding that the answer has a chance to correct.
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Trick question?
attribute error
Poor question more likely
I am currently looking for job opportunity and amount of gotcha type question i see in OA is just something else.
I can’t imagine that’s any fun to deal with.
“You should have known what the intent of the question was. Management won’t know or care about the internals of your code as long as it meets requirements. You have failed this test.”
Or
“You should know that you’re calling a function with invalid parameters. Where did you get your CS degree from again?”
“You should have known what the intent of the question was. Management won’t know or care about the internals of your code as long as it meets requirements. You have failed this test.”
“You should know that you’re calling a function with invalid parameters. Where did you get your CS degree from again?”
sigh you can have your ransom, just remove the cameras.
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Is it wrong that I'm stuck trying to figure out what language this is?
Trying to figure out what string.length and print(var) exist in a single language.... Not Java, not C# (I'm pretty sure its .Length, not length), certainly not C, C++ or Python, Pascal, Schme or Haskell or Javascript or PHP.
This is quite a cheap answer but maybe it's just pseudo code. We had exercises in university about pseudo code with examples that intentionally broke all syntax systems and conventions to show that not everything has to be executable that you write down in a theoretical computer science homework
It's a shitty question. It's implied by the fact that "24" is wrong that the answer is "6", the length of the string "Monday".
In some languages dot access on objects could give you the properties of the object type (things pertaining to a "day" object) but this would still be ambiguous since a day's length can be measured in many different ways.
In others, it would require you to call length as a function (.length()) or not be available at all, or require you to pass the object into another function [ length_in_seconds(day_x)]
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I’m very much guessing that this is just supposed to be a type of pseudocode given the context and vagueness of it.
It’s a big reason why I really dont like pseudocode as instruction to people learning the basics of what programming is. It made more sense 20 years ago when programming languages were on a whole a lot more esoteric and less plain text, but now with simple languages like Python there’s simply little reason to not just write Python code or whatever.
I took an intro to programming class in College and the single thing I got dinged on the most is “incorrect pseudocode”, which was either too formal and close to real code or too casual and close to plain English.
It’s not a great system. We really need to get rid of it as a practice
Especially since python is right there.
I mean once you get beyond bash-like scripts python is esoteric as fuck, adding oop to what is essentially a shell is a terrible idea
That said, there's plenty of languages with good syntax that is still good when you get into more complex stuff (modern C#, scala, kotlin and more)
Wut
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Same thoughts I had.
- Language which allows variable declaration as
name = valuewithout any keywords or its a variable declared outside of the example - Has lowercase
.lengthand not.lenor other .lengthis also a property and not a method? Assuming convention.length()for method call likeprint(x)
That recurring puzzle is among the most interesting aspects of this community, IMHO.
It’s weird that people are so focused on it. It’s pseudocode, and it’s purely meant for day one comp sci students to grasp how data is stored and processed, before they are forced into writing Java, most likely
Most irritating aspect of switching languages. How are switches done in this one again?
•Searches web•
Ah yes
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JavaScript has [string].length
doesnt have print nor allow variable declaration without keywords
Sure you can write foo = 3 in JavaScript. It’s a global variable and can be referenced as either foo or window.foo.
print() will print the text to a physical printer with paper and everything. Don't confuse it with console.log and use it in a loop.
it's so rough learning this by accident
It would have print if it was previously declared as function.
Also, js is as dirty as you want it to be. Keywords are indeed not necessary for declaring variables.
JavaScript is the language of the assassins, with its infinitely modifiable prototypical setup
Nothing is true
true !== 1
true
true + true + true === 3
true
Everything is permitted
[]+[]
''
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does it give reference to what language this is in?
x = string length of “Monday” => 6
passed my gcse?