Programming Puzzle - hot question asked in interview

http://www.gufgaaf.com/Page/DisplayThread?threadId=5

Easily can be done since modifying for loop is allowed. Just have i<101 and increase i by i=i+1 and print i.

But this can be done without modifying the For loop. Just print ("1","2","3"......."100");

:)

Yeah. But that prints 1 to 100 but we have to print 100 to 1.

try this as well -

http://gufgaaf.com/Page/DisplayThread?threadId=13

Set I to 101 and decrease I to 1 or something like that.

i'd do this in scripting for similar needs -

I think the question asked to print 100 to 1:

for(i=100; i>0; i--) {
console.log(i);
}

and if you wanted 1 to 100:

for(i=1; i<101; i++) {
console.log(i);
}

wish all interview questions were as lame.

@ghogay_moro
Oops thats wrong.-
everything needs to be done within
for(var i=0){
}
you cant start another for loop outside closing parenthesis. and you can't print 1 to 100.

for(var i=0; i<100; i++) {
console.log(100-i);
}

c864916 - you got it.

a_guy, i think i am not seeing the obvious. care to explain a bit how my for loop is "starting" outside  either parentheses? not trying to be a deek, but just trying to understand which part of the question i misread. cheers!

This is super basic. Calling it a Puzzle, itself is a Puzzle. Lol.

@ghogay_moro: What I understood was that the initializer expression should be limited to var i = 0. @A_GuY: Correct me if I am wrong.
@fuckeetow: Yes, it's pretty straightforward. The only confusion folks had was with the initializer constraint.

thanks c88.., for the explanation. i can now wrap that in my head. the original question should have asked just that!

side note: talking about interviews, i once helped prepare a question for an interview - to come up with a typewriter effect via ActionScript (Flash was a thing then!), and he didn't waste more than 3 minutes to complete it. it takes me more than 3 minutes to just think through the problem. some people really are good at what they do!

Thanks guys for participating..