Facebook Interview Question for Software Engineers


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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public class CircularBuffer<T> {

        private T[] buffer;

        private int tail;

        private int head;

        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        public CircularBuffer(int n) {
            buffer = (T[]) new Object[n];
            tail = 0;
            head = 0;
        }

        public void add(T toAdd) {
            if (head != (tail - 1)) {
                buffer[head++] = toAdd;
            } else {
                //throw new BufferOverflowException();
            }
            head = head % buffer.length;
        }

        public T get() {
            T t = null;
            int adjTail = tail > head ? tail - buffer.length : tail;
            if (adjTail < head) {
                t = (T) buffer[tail++];
                tail = tail % buffer.length;
            } else {
                //throw new BufferUnderflowException();
            }
            return t;
        }

        public String toString() {
            return "CircularBuffer(size=" + buffer.length + ", head=" + head + ", tail=" + tail + ")";
        }


}

- aonecoding June 06, 2017 | Flag Reply
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class my_exception: public exception {
    std::string reason;
    public:
    my_exception(string s) : reason(s) {}

    virtual const char* what() const throw()  {
        return reason.c_str();
    }
};

class cb {
  private:
  int sz;
  int *buffer;
  int count;
  int rindex, windex;
  public:
  cb(int mz) : sz(mz+1), count(0), rindex(0), windex(0) {
      buffer = new int[sz];
      bzero(buffer, sizeof(int)*(sz));
  }
  
  bool full() {
      return ((windex + 1)%sz == rindex)? true: false;
  }
  bool empty() {
      return rindex == windex? true: false;
  }
  
  bool add(int v) {
      if (rindex == windex) {
          return false;
          // assert on count == sz;
      }
      buffer[windex] = v;
      windex = (windex+1)%(sz);
      if (full()) {
          cout << " the CR is full \n";
      }
      return true;
      
  }
  
  int get() {
      if (empty()) {
          throw my_exception("Empty");
      }
      int v = buffer[rindex];
      rindex = (rindex+1)%sz;
      if (empty()) {
          cout << " the buffer is empty\n";
      }
      return v;
  }
};

int main() {
	// your code goes here
	cb cr(3);
	try {
	cr.add(1);
	cr.add(2);
	cr.add(3);
	if(!cr.add(4)) {
	    cout << "4 cant be added\n";
	}
	cout << cr.get() <<"\t" << cr.get() << "\t" << cr.get() <<"\n";
	cout <<"Getting the 4th element \n";
	cr.get();
	} catch(const exception &e) {
	    cout << "Exception caught at addng " << e.what() <<"\n";
	}
	}

- ali.kheam June 07, 2017 | Flag Reply


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