Mark (newsgroups):

> This may be slightly OT, but is is to do with C++. I've been asked to
> take a brainbench C++ test with a prospective contract opportunity.
> Having been travelling for several months since my last job, I was a
> little wary how my current knowledge would be.


I'd much prefer if the examiner was sitting there beside me so I could:

1) Point out his errors
2) Make sure he understands what I'm doing rather than marking it wrong
because he doesn't understand my methods.

I had a programming exam there about a week ago, and while I didn't dumb-
down my coding, I put in explanations to explain to the examiner what I was
doing, for fear that they would mark it wrong because they erroneously
thought that I was doing something wrong. For instance, I had a function as
follows in one part:

void Func(SomeType param[2])

, but then I drew a big arrow to the function parameter saying "identical
to SomeType *param". I did this so that the examiner wouldn't erroneously
think that I'm trying to pass an array by value. Unfortunately, we don't
get our scripts back unless we actually kick up a storm about getting a
undeserved bad mark.

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Tomás Ó hÉilidhe