I'm a purely BYOND programmer, even if I did delve into C++ a while back, so I doubt I'd get higher than a 1 on that.


Someone should make a BYOND programmer competency test.

One of the things that has annoyed me about learning to program with BYOND over learning to program in C++ or something that the rest of the world is familiar with is that the terminology is different.

I might have a complete understanding of how to work with a certain term, but the term is different with BYOND, so when someone refers to it in their language, I have no idea what they're talking about.

So I look at the first question: "Doesn't know the difference between Array and LinkedList". I suspect that I probably do, but since I don't actually know what those references are referring to in common languages, I really don't.

Foomer wrote:

So I look at the first question: "Doesn't know the difference between Array and LinkedList". I suspect that I probably do, but since I don't actually know what those references are referring to in common languages, I really don't.

An array is generally an integer-indexed list of pointers or number types, where the desired data is read by adding the index to the memory position of the array.
A linked list is a set of objects which point to each other (normally only 'forward' in the list, a list using objects pointing forwards and backwards is 'doubly' linked).

At least, that's what I can remember from my Computing lessons 2 years ago.

[EDIT] My Foomer-style score:

Computer Science: 1
Software Engineering: 0.66
Programming: 1.06
Experience: 0 (I've done some professional work but not really enough to qualify here)
Knowledge: 1.28

Average: 0.8

Also yeah, the leftmost column is level '0'.

Ah, I thought the minimum level was 1, so I added 1 to all of my scores. My new level is 0.5. Damnit!

My stats:

Computer Science: 2.67
Software Engineering: 2.67
Programming: 2.77
Experience: 2.00
Knowledge: 2.71

Average: 2.56

Computer Science: 0.6
1
1
0 (no idea what a linker is)

Software Engineering: 0
-1
0
1

Programming: 1.8
3
1
2
2
2
2 (I suppose that's mostly BYOND's work)
1
1
1 (Drat, I rely on most BYONDers knowing what BYOND's runtimes mean.)
2
3
3 (I suppose I classify for the last two as a library writer)
3 (Not fair given the audience, better alternatives are suggested constantly)
0
1 (D'oh! Just started Oracle classes)

Experience: 0.5
0
0
0
2 (If the domain in question is BYOND)

Knowledge: 0.4
0
1
0 (I don't imagine a whole lot of people have seen the codebase)
1
1
-1
1

Average: 0.66

Thanks Kunark, that was fun and uplifting. ¬.¬

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