STUMP’D Interview Coding Questions

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes try to stump each other with coding interview questions like what is a higher order component? What is functional programming? And more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:47 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 03:00 Sponsor: Sentry 04:10 What is a higher order component? 05:34 What is functional programming? 09:00 What’s the purpose of cache busting and how do you achieve it? Wes’ course for Beginner JavaScript 10:37 What is short circuit evaluation? 13:19 What is a closure? 15:49 What is the reason for wrapping the contents of a JavaScript source file in a function that is then invoked? 17:30 Can you describe how CSS specificity works? 20:15 How does prototypal inheritance differ from classical inheritance? 23:56 What is the difference between a parameter and an argument? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax on this hasty treat. We're going to be playing a game of stumped.
0:33.0	Stumped is the show where we ask each other interview questions from JavaScript HTML CSS
0:39.0	and more. And we try to stump each other. Now we aren't picking out the hardest questions.
0:44.0	What we have is a resource called 30 seconds of interviews.org. And what we do is we run a
0:50.0	quick little script that grabs one at random. So that way we are playing nice and fair
0:55.0	here. We're not trying to... We're just trying to get... We're just trying to get
1:01.0	random interview questions so that not only you can see exactly that the pros
1:07.0	struggle with the stuff too, or just that on the fly sometimes coming up with these questions
1:12.0	is hard, but we'll also go into the answers so that you can understand the answers
1:16.0	to these interview questions. It's a lot of fun. And if you like this, we have many more
1:20.0	stumped episodes in the back catalog. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver,
1:24.0	Colorado, and with me, as always, is Wes. Boss! Hey! Excited to be stumped!
1:29.0	I'm excited to be stumped too. And I'm excited for two of our excellent sponsors today.
1:34.0	This episode is sponsored by two amazing companies, Century, the perfect place for all of your
1:41.0	errors and exceptions, and LightStep Incident Response, Intelligent On-Call Scheduling
1:47.0	and Escalation. LightStep Incident Response is built on the ServiceNow
1:52.0	platform, which is used by over 6,000 companies. You pay for the services you
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