Ace the Programming Interview : 160 Questions and Answers for Success

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Cover; Chapter 1: Hiring Programmers: The Inside Story; Reasons They Recruit; Talking to Managers; Preparing Your CV; Using Job Sites; Recruitment Agencies; Searching for Jobs Yourself; Emerging Alternatives; Chapter 2: Handling the Phone Interview with Confidence; Knowing What to Expect; Chapter 3: In-Person Interviews; Preparing for the Interview; The Most Important Thing; The Second Most Important Thing; Communicating Effectively; Chapter 4: Negotiating a Job Offer; Understanding the Market; Doing the Numbers; The Role of the Recruiting Agent; Start as You Mean to Go On

Evaluating a ContractWhat to Do If Things Go Wrong; Summary of Negotiating Tips; Chapter 5: Programming Fundamentals; Understanding Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal; Understanding Data Structures; Sorting; Working with Recursion; Modeling with Object-Oriented Programming; Thinking Like a Functional Programmer; Understanding SQL; Full-Stack Web Development; Deciphering Regular Expressions; Recognizing Hard Problems; QUESTIONS; ANSWERS; Chapter 6: Code Quality; Writing Clear Code; Writing Expressive Code; Measuring Efficiency and Performance; Understanding What "Modular" Means

Understanding the SOLID principlesAvoiding Code Duplication; QUESTIONS; ANSWERS; Chapter 7: The Usual Suspects; Concurrent Programming; Relational Databases; Pointers; Design Issues; Bad Habits; QUESTIONS; ANSWERS; Chapter 8: Quirks and Idioms; Binary Fractions and Floating Point Numbers; QUESTIONS; JavaScript; QUESTIONS; C#; QUESTIONS; Java; QUESTIONS; Perl; QUESTIONS; Ruby; QUESTIONS; Transact-SQL; QUESTIONS; ANSWERS; Chapter 9: Testing-Not Just for Testers; Unit Tests; Test-Driven Development; Writing Good Unit Tests; Testing Slow Things; Unit Testing Frameworks; Mock Objects; QUESTIONS

ANSWERSChapter 10: The Right Tools; Exploring Visual Studio; QUESTIONS; Exploiting Command-Line Tools; QUESTIONS; Understanding PowerShell; QUESTIONS; Troubleshooting with Utilities from Sysinternals; QUESTIONS; Managing Source Code; QUESTIONS; QUESTIONS; QUESTIONS; ANSWERS; Chapter 11: Notorious Interview Questions; Estimating on the Spot; QUESTIONS; Solving Puzzles and Brain-Teasers; QUESTIONS; Solving Probability Problems; QUESTIONS; Coping with Concurrency; QUESTIONS; Doing Tricks with Bits; QUESTIONS; Devising Recursive Algorithms; QUESTIONS; Understanding Logic Gates; QUESTIONS

Writing Code to…Prove You Can CodeQUESTIONS; Answers; Chapter 12: Programming Wisdom; QUESTIONS; ANSWERS; Appendix A: Preparing Your Cheat Sheets; General and Behavioral; Programming, General; Programming Concepts; Work History; Questions to Ask, If Given the Opportunity; Introduction; Code for this Book; How This Book is Organized

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