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Interesting article, I enjoyed it.
Extending on what you said, if the a=b test is for assignment and sequence, I would suggest that coding a solution for the Knight's Tour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight's_tour) would be a good test for recursion / iteration. To me this begs the question, what would be the concurrency test?
Commented Apr 28, 2011 on Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats at Coding Horror
Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
A bunch of people have linked to this academic paper, which proposes a way to separate programming sheep from non-programming goats in computer science classes – long before the students have ever touched a program or a programming language: All teachers of programming find that their results...
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