{"id":40,"date":"2009-07-02T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-07-02T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T13:54:32","slug":"some-useful-programming-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/some-useful-programming-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Some useful programming resources&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting on a phone interview with someone from <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve been reading and preparing. I have found a few resources that I want to keep around, and spread the word for others.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the excellent <a title=\"5 important areas to cover in phone interviews\" href=\"http:\/\/steve.yegge.googlepages.com\/five-essential-phone-screen-questions\">Steve<\/a> <a title=\"tips for being interviewed and getting the job\" href=\"http:\/\/steve-yegge.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/get-that-job-at-google.html\">Yegge<\/a> and <a title=\"Guerilla interview guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html\">Joel<\/a> <a title=\"Joel's book on hiring good technical staff\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nt_1fCfqv5EC\">Spolsky<\/a> on the interview process. Use what they say to reverse-engineer what you should do!<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, some online resources so I don&#8217;t make (too much) of an ass of myself in the interview &#8212; some quick references on core topics in case I get a brain freeze:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.princeton.edu\/introcs\/11cheatsheet\/\">Java quick reference\/cheatsheet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.carleton.edu\/faculty\/dmusican\/cs117w02\/iocheat.html\">Java console\/file IO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_data_structures\">Wikipedia&#8217;s list of data structures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itl.nist.gov\/div897\/sqg\/dads\/\">Dictionary of Data Structures\/Algorithms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catonmat.net\/blog\/low-level-bit-hacks-you-absolutely-must-know\/\">Useful bit operations<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catonmat.net\/\">CatOnMat<\/a> has heaps of other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catonmat.net\/blog\/genetic-algorithms-101\/\">useful<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catonmat.net\/blog\/category\/cheat-sheets\/\">articles<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/epaperpress.com\/sortsearch\/\">sorting and searching algorithms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m astonished how rusty I feel with respect to a few of these big topics: my courses have moved on to stuff like programming paradigms like Scheme and concurrency\/threading. I need more time to follow up on my own coding project ideas!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: So, it was someone with a background in computer security and operating systems. All I know about OS is stuff I&#8217;ve picked up from Slashdot articles and interesting articles on IBM DeveloperWorks \ud83d\ude41 He scaled down some of the questions to more DSA type things when it became clear how little I knew about network programming, but it was still pretty embarassing for me. I do have a piece of homework to do, so hopefully that means I&#8217;m still in the running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting on a phone interview with someone from Amazon Web Services, and I&#8217;ve been reading and preparing. I have found a few resources that I want to keep around, and spread the word for others. Firstly, the excellent Steve Yegge and Joel Spolsky on the interview process. Use what they say to reverse-engineer what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p715w6-E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}