Comments on: Programmer Personality Test

By: Kal_Torak

Kal_Torak — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:48:31 +0000

PHSB
You’re a Planner.
You like coding at a High level.
You work best in a Solo situation.
You are a liBeral programmer.

I have to say though, that my results are strongly influenced by my lack of experience and knowledge in programming.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:53:15 +0000

There should be more than 12 questions. I had taken it four times and each had different results. I feel the most accurate of my results may be DHTC.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:36:02 +0000

What I try to strive for is to heavily comment the interface, but sparsely comment the code. I find that commenting too much in the code makes it harder to see what’s being done. What I try to accomplish is smaller functions. If you can keep functions between 5 – 15 lines, it’s very easy to follow the logic- especially if variable names and function names are named in a self-documenting manner.

I second that. I also try to use self-documenting variable/function/module names (helps understanding the code much, much better…)

These kind of tests are nice, now we just need to wait Doolwind to get V2 online ;)

By: Fernando De La Cruz

Fernando De La Cruz — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:24:44 +0000

Your programmer personality type is:

PHTC

You’re a Planner.
You like coding at a High level.
You work best in a Team.
You are a Conservative programmer.

I’m definately not anti-commenting. What I try to strive for is to heavily comment the interface, but sparsely comment the code. I find that commenting too much in the code makes it harder to see what’s being done. What I try to accomplish is smaller functions. If you can keep functions between 5 – 15 lines, it’s very easy to follow the logic- especially if variable names and function names are named in a self-documenting manner.

Comments in .cpp files should be used for especially ambiguous areas. But I tend to comment excessively in the header so that anyone who needs to use the interface will know exactly what the functions are intended for. After all, the interface is what most people are going to care about.

So, I think that adding a distinction between commenting in code blocks and commenting in header files would be an interesting addition to the programmer test. Really interesting though!

By: Mischiefblog » Blog Archive » Programmer personality

Mischiefblog » Blog Archive » Programmer personality — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:43:18 +0000

[...] Today, while reading some of my blog backlog, I found a programmer personality test linked to from Juuso at GameProducer.net. [...]

By: Dark Moon

Dark Moon — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:45:53 +0000

I also got DHSB. But question 12 was really hard to answer, because it’s such an extreme example. Using comments is something I really had to learn in the industry :)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:42:07 +0000

I used to be the complete opposite. Into assembly, jumping in and coding, not enough comments etc. But after working for 10 years as a Delphi developer running a team, I pretty much had to change, and I must say it’s much better now.

By: Greg-Dro Sarhadian

Greg-Dro Sarhadian — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:31:34 +0000

Hey I took the test and I got the same as you Jusso :) DHSB.

By: Jelani Harris

Jelani Harris — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:36:35 +0000

Interesting, I got DHSB as well. Doer, High Level, Solo and Liberal. I don’t believe that time is money, but I do believe that action is better than spending hours upon hours of planning.

By: Eric Fortier

Eric Fortier — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:10:22 +0000

I got a PHSB rating, Planner, High Level, Solo and Liberal.

The first sentence of the Planner says: “You may be slow, but you’ll usually find the best solution”. I realized I was really slow when I too a programmer test for a job at Cryptic Studios.

I spend so much time thinking and trying to come up with a good, solid solution!

Thanks for the link to this test!