Why or how did fizzbuzz earn its place in lore? I looked at Wikipedia and it didn't seem to go into detail.
Also we have the teapot, hello world, Foo Bar
What are some others?
Also we have the teapot, hello world, Foo Bar
What are some others?
Atwood referenced Imran Ghory who seems to have originated the test.
The functional why was as a filter for eliminating impostors. At the time it was new, no one could look up the answers for it, because it was such an arbitrary problem. Now, it's just a curiosity.
And yet, there are so many people like that it's fucking scary.
- fibonacci sequence to n (ooh, look, isn't recursion pretty) - parallel map (simple demonstration of parallelism in languages that allow it)
[slightly more involved, webapp hello worlds] - basic blog (various MVC web frameworks, normally along lines of if I run commands x, y and z I get models, views and controllers and it all works) - basic todo application (various frontend frameworks) - basic chat application (as a realtime demonstration, generally for websockets)