For some odd reason, work allows me to handle phone screens and interviews. Each time I give an interview, I try to do three things. First I ask them about general programming questions. This might be OO questions. It might be methodology questions. It might be design pattern questions. Next I like to ask them more specific technologies questions, such as questions “how do you do ABC in Flex? Java?”. Lastly I want to know what they do in their spare time. What books they read? Do they code outside of work? How they go about researching new technologies? Etc.
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Many times when we are designing our programs model, first thing most people, including myself, want to start doing is inheriting from other classes. This makes for a nice large hierarchical beast. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it can lead to certain problems (from my own personal experience, it usually does). With composition, the programmer no longer has to extend from the parent class. You are able to expose only the methods you are interested in. In this article, I really want to discuss the importance of composition. I feel as programmers, many of us find inheritance easier and we often use it without thinking about the repercussions it may bring to us.
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