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Asked: 2026-05-17T21:04:56+00:00

I discovered the FizzBuzz question today at coding horror . Great article. However, something

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I discovered the “FizzBuzz” question today at coding horror. Great article. However, something in one of the user-comments confused me — here’s the quote:

Geez guys – EVERY ONE of you who gave
example code – EVERY ONE – hard coded
the FIZZ and BUZZ conditions…

It sounds to me like this poster is ridiculing people for “hard-coding” conditions, ie :

if(i % 3 == 0)
...

What is point the poster is trying to make? Is there another way to specify conditions in a program?

Thanks for taking the time!

Dan

the FIZZ and BUZZ conditions…

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  1. Editorial Team

    The point of Fizz Buzz is to quickly weed out non-programmers, not find the best programmer. Any reasonable function that meets the specification is acceptable for this test.

    If you don’t hardcode, great, you extra-pass. But, that doesn’t get you out of the hard questions that are following. I usually increase the difficulty with each question, but I don’t want to waste time if the candidate totally can’t answer simple questions.

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