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Brainteasers / Logic Problems

The ability to answer clever questions hasn't​ necessarily correlated well with being a good programmer (programming does that)... still... ...puzzling out a good logic problem seems to weigh in for keeping the brain interested and agile. I did a quick search and it doesn't seem popular in Q&A, though codes pull in more hits. Is there any utility to brainteasers here? What about assigning code categories?

5th Apr 2017, 7:50 AM
Kirk Schafer
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My pronoun usage may not be very helpful. The main question is...does anyone care about puzzles? Google used to want candidates who could answer trick questions but that wasn't​ a good performance indicator. Yet...people are pattern-finders, and entire sections at StackExchange (which is for computer engineers + etc) are devoted to puzzles. If Q&A isn't the place, then marking codes as puzzles (mostly of the 'logic game' variety) might be nice...but we can't categorize our codes--and again, I see little proof it has value (here; to categorize). I guess I could post a brainteaser and see if anyone bites.
6th Apr 2017, 8:53 PM
Kirk Schafer
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