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Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jan 5, 2010

Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.

You have the file with word at a single line. #input sample file abactor abaculus abacus Abadite . . Zyrenian #Output ******************a **********b ************************c a) you have to count the character and create a histogram in alphabetical order. b) now you have to produce a histogram with max 80 character in line in reference to max count c) now same out based histrogram based on the character count
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Perl Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1★
Mar 24, 2014

You have the file with word at a single line. #input sample file abactor abaculus abacus Abadite . . Zyrenian #Output ******************a **********b ************************c a) you have to count the character and create a histogram in alphabetical order. b) now you have to produce a histogram with max 80 character in line in reference to max count c) now same out based histrogram based on the character count

Main Technical Question: Write a function that takes as input an array of words input => ['cat', 'star', 'act', 'god', 'arts', 'dog', 'rats'] and returns a sorted array output => ['cat', 'act', 'god', 'dog', 'start', 'arts', 'rats']
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Software Engineer - New Grad

Interviewed at Yelp

3.2★
Sep 20, 2013

Main Technical Question: Write a function that takes as input an array of words input => ['cat', 'star', 'act', 'god', 'arts', 'dog', 'rats'] and returns a sorted array output => ['cat', 'act', 'god', 'dog', 'start', 'arts', 'rats']

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