N/A Interview Question for Senior Software Development Engineers
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AnswersCreate a RESTful microservice that implements a card shuffling algorithm, as defined below. Should have evidence of test-driven development with unit tests. Use best practices of interfaces and generics for abstraction, preferably implementing a strategy pattern for deploy-time dependency injection of a shuffling algorithm.
- dbs.tkg December 11, 2016 in United States
Requirements:
· Create a microservice that stores and shuffles card decks.
· A card may be represented as a simple string such as “5-heart”, or “K-spade”.
· A deck is an ordered list of 52 standard playing cards.
· Expose a RESTful interface that allows a user to:
· PUT an idempotent request for the creation of a new named deck. New decks are created in some initial sorted order.
· POST a request to shuffle an existing named deck.
· GET a list of the current decks persisted in the service.
· GET a named deck in its current sorted/shuffled order.
· DELETE a named deck.
· Design your own data and API structure(s) for the deck.
· Persist the decks in-memory only, but stub the persistence layer such that it can be later upgraded to a durable datastore.
· Implement a simple shuffling algorithm that simply randomizes the deck in-place.
· Implement a more complex algorithm that simulates hand-shuffling, i.e. splitting the deck in half and interleaving the two halves, repeating the process multiple times.
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