How should I answer these questions? /u/CatCow_1 CSCQ protests reddit

Hello guys! I had an interview for an internship at a small startup I found on Handshake. My interviewer said that my interview went well, but he wants me to answer some questions by Friday. I’m going to put them in a google doc and send them to his email. I want to get this internship, so I want to answer these questions the best way I can. The third question asked me what is a software development problem i had and how do i overcome it? Here is my response:

“I’m currently building a Jeopardy Game out of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and I’ve faced several challenges building it such as implementing the correct logic and coming up with dynamic ways to implement that logic. The most recent bug that I came across was points not being incremented even though the player got the question correct. I had a switch statement that determines how many points the player gets depending on the question, so I thought maybe the syntax in the switch statement was incorrect. After analyzing it, I realized that the syntax was incorrect, so I fixed it. However, the player’s score still would not increase because an alert I had for incorrect answers would pop-up even when the answer I had put in the text box was correct. To figure out the problem, I logged the array of button objects I had created to make sure all of them were in their correct position and corresponded to the appropriate question. After doing this, I noticed that the first button object in the array was null. Since it was null, the first button that appeared on the gameboard corresponded to the second question in my dictionary structure which contained questions, answers, and ID’s, so I had to get rid of the null value. However, the game still did not give the player points for correct answers. Finally, after looking at the ID values that help display and correspond to each question, I noticed that my dictionary structure started at 0, but the cases for my switch statement to display and check the answer for the appropriate question started at 1. This is why all my answers were marked wrong. I solved this challenge by analyzing each part of code that could have been causing the problem and using the Inspect tool.”

I don’t know if this is too much detail. I gave a detailed answer because this is one of the projects on my resume, so he asked about it. I mentioned some issues that I had about it and he said that he wants consistent and determined people and encouraged me to finish the project.

Lastly, there are two other questions: “How do you prioritize tasks in a sprint backlog during a sprint planning meeting?” and “Can you describe a time when you were part of a Scrum team?”. I don’t know what a sprint backlog is, and I limited experience with scrum. Should I just write that I don’t really have any experience with these things or should I look up what a sprint back log is and say what i would do?

Hello guys! I had an interview for an internship at a small startup I found on Handshake. My interviewer said that my interview went well, but he wants me to answer some questions by Friday. I’m going to put them in a google doc and send them to his email. I want to get this internship, so I want to answer these questions the best way I can. The third question asked me what is a software development problem i had and how do i overcome it? Here is my response:

“I’m currently building a Jeopardy Game out of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and I’ve faced several challenges building it such as implementing the correct logic and coming up with dynamic ways to implement that logic. The most recent bug that I came across was points not being incremented even though the player got the question correct. I had a switch statement that determines how many points the player gets depending on the question, so I thought maybe the syntax in the switch statement was incorrect. After analyzing it, I realized that the syntax was incorrect, so I fixed it. However, the player’s score still would not increase because an alert I had for incorrect answers would pop-up even when the answer I had put in the text box was correct. To figure out the problem, I logged the array of button objects I had created to make sure all of them were in their correct position and corresponded to the appropriate question. After doing this, I noticed that the first button object in the array was null. Since it was null, the first button that appeared on the gameboard corresponded to the second question in my dictionary structure which contained questions, answers, and ID’s, so I had to get rid of the null value. However, the game still did not give the player points for correct answers. Finally, after looking at the ID values that help display and correspond to each question, I noticed that my dictionary structure started at 0, but the cases for my switch statement to display and check the answer for the appropriate question started at 1. This is why all my answers were marked wrong. I solved this challenge by analyzing each part of code that could have been causing the problem and using the Inspect tool.”

I don’t know if this is too much detail. I gave a detailed answer because this is one of the projects on my resume, so he asked about it. I mentioned some issues that I had about it and he said that he wants consistent and determined people and encouraged me to finish the project.

Lastly, there are two other questions: “How do you prioritize tasks in a sprint backlog during a sprint planning meeting?” and “Can you describe a time when you were part of a Scrum team?”. I don’t know what a sprint backlog is, and I limited experience with scrum. Should I just write that I don’t really have any experience with these things or should I look up what a sprint back log is and say what i would do?