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I was asked recently by a big company to code some classes in Python, on paper. They then questioned my indentation, syntax, and case-sensitivity multiple times!

A valid question, but paper-code?




Hah that is pretty terrible. In fact, I don't think Python is a very good language to code on paper due to the indentation side of things. Maybe graph paper would help?


Maybe! Or just understand it isn't easy for anyone to indent things on paper haha.




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