What's even more astonishing to me than the fact that programming applicants mess it up is the fact that when the problem is introduced to a programming forum or blog there will inevitably be commenters commenting with a solution, and that solution will be wrong. The only car analogy I came up with was a person hearing about someone putting on their spare tire, so they go out to do it on their own car from memory of the account, and they do it wrong, when the instructions were right in the glovebox.
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What's even more astonishing to me than the fact that programming applicants mess it up is the fact that when the problem is introduced to a programming forum or blog there will inevitably be commenters commenting with a solution, and that solution will be wrong. The only car analogy I came up with was a person hearing about someone putting on their spare tire, so they go out to do it on their own car from memory of the account, and they do it wrong, when the instructions were right in the glovebox.