Ask HN: Sample of code ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457124

by cake • 17 years ago

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Some job ads mention to provide a sample of code. I find it extremely hard to provide a sample of code that would represent how I work. (I'm a web developper). When trying to find an example, I was always unable to dig out something without giving 130 pages worth of code...

How would you do that ? What do you show when asked ? What is working ?

cperciva• 17 years ago

"Here's my website, go look at some of the open source code I've published" tends to work well. The more code you throw at people the better -- that way it's clear that you're not hiding a large volume of garbage while showing them a few good lines of code.

suhail• 17 years ago

Perhaps you can just say "here's something I've built, completely by me."--I don't seen how a few lines of code is going to say much, writing neat code is like comp sci. 101.

defunkt• 17 years ago

This is where contributing to open source really comes in handy. For one of my earlier jobs I was unable to show any code from previous employers but had a project on SourceForge. From what I heard, it helped land me the job.

rchiniquy• 17 years ago

Code is not always requested just for the purpose of representing the applicant. Sometimes interviewers (like me) just want to have code to hand which you are guaranteed to be familiar with; It's nicer to reference code you've actually written to ask specific questions about, say, stack vs heap usage or OO design.

Ask HN: Sample of code ?

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