Cosmonaut in a boat
Once upon a time in the evening in one programmer chat, some programmers felt boring. And I don’t remember why, but we started to compare programming languages performance using the Fibonacci algorithm in its recursive implementation. Many times passed since it happened. Only artifacts such as source code left on my hard drive and that’s why I decided to create this post.
First time I faced this problem during one of my codility tests for a work application. And I failed it. :) Just because I have never heard about such problems before. Anyway, my opinion about codility tests is the same as about writing code on a whiteboard. A programmer should be able to think, to investigate and solve the problem in the end. You can’t train yourself for every existing problem and their endless variations. It’s true especially for whiteboard coding challenge because you have limited time and can’t use online resources. Stress not compliment process of thinking, it destroys this process. Well, it’s a topic for another post. In this post, I will provide my investigation on a Knight distance problem and a solution.
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