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Amy Kimber posted an article today referring to a post from Nick Telford on twitter:
Will The Real Programmers Please Stand Up? http://retwt.me/1NEBw // another example of how diluted our industry really is (link)
This interests me as I often find job interviews to be very generic and after about four in a row you get to know all the answers and appear much cleverer than you perhaps are. I like a problem that makes you think and although FizzBuzz is a trivial problem, I wanted to answer it with a little bit of real world thinking.
To quote Amy, the FizzBuzz problem is “The idea is simple, all you have to do is write a program that prints out the numbers 1 to 100, but for multiples of 3, print Fizz instead of the number and for multiples of 5 print Buzz. If the number is a multiple of both, FizzBuzz should be printed.”
In the real world, specs change. Today it’s 3 and 5 and tomorrow it’s 4 and 9 and we need to add an extra one “Bibble” for 11. I decided to solve the problem with a list of number and word pairs so that changing it would be easy. .Net provides a nice KeyValuePair generic which I used as Int,String.
Originally I had this implemented using a Dictionary but as FizzBuzz must be implemented the correct way around (not BuzzFizz) I needed to change this to a SortedDictionary to ensure order of execution.
Code is as below:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace FizzBuzz
{
class Program
{
static ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, string>> wordlist;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
wordlist = new SortedDictionary<int, string>();
wordlist.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>(3, "Fizz"));
wordlist.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>(5, "Buzz"));
PrintFizzBuzz(1, 100);
Console.ReadKey();
}
static void PrintFizzBuzz(int start, int finish)
{
for (int i = start; i <= finish; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine(CalculateFizzBuzz(i));
}
}
static object CalculateFizzBuzz(int i)
{
string CalculateFizzBuzz = "";
foreach (KeyValuePair<int, string> word in wordlist)
{
if (i % word.Key == 0)
CalculateFizzBuzz += word.Value;
}
if (CalculateFizzBuzz.Length == 0)
CalculateFizzBuzz = i.ToString();
return CalculateFizzBuzz;
}
}
}
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