[jimbobimbo]

I can't downvote, but I fail to see what's the problem with "coding" on a whiteboard and why people are stressing out over it. When I interview people I ask them to write code on the piece of paper. All I'm looking for is a presence of a half-decent idea and them not using things like strlen() when iterating through a C-string in their doodles. The rest we will talk over. I never expect polished code on the whiteboard, it's always a starting point for a conversation that follows.

[Nick_C]

> not using things like strlen() when iterating through a C-string

At the risk of making myself look stupid, is that because of O(n) vs O(n^2) (should be testing for \0), or is there another reason I'm not picking up?

[jimbobimbo]

Yeah, it's just to see if a person understands that some basic pointer operations and that regular strings in C are "special" because of their \0 at the end.