Author, design consultant, and veteran coder Bruce Eckel likes to have job candidates describe a chicken using a programming language.
Not quite right: the challenge is to "make an object model of a chicken," to test your analysis and design skills. No programming required. And I heard this from Brett Shoemaker when he attended one of my workshops.
That seems like the most public place that I said it, but I think it might be in one or two other places as well. These days, citations seem to be going by the wayside.
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