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  1. Design a cellphone for a blind person.
  2. Design a music system for a car. What are the features? Draw a picture.
  3. Design a GPS navigation unit for a hiker
  4. Design a communication device for Canadian park rangers.
  5. Design a remote control for an automatic window-blind system.
  6. Design TV Remote Control with Two Buttons.
  7. Design a coffee maker that will be used by astronauts.
  8. Design an alarm clock.
  9. Design an alarm clock for a blind person.
  10. Design a search function
  11. Design a website for a library
  12. Design an ATM for children
  13. What method would you use to look up a word in a dictionary?
  14. What are examples of poorly designed software?
  15. Design an instant messaging system.
  16. I am your grandmother. Describe what MATLAB is to me.
  17. How would you explain what a database is to a 5-year-old?
  18. How would you explain computer networking to a kindergarten kid?
  19. What is your favourite software, and how would you improve it?
  20. Write code for an electronic messaging board. What happens when a user logs on?
  21. Develop an algorithm for selecting objects in Visio.
  22. Tell me about a time when you made a decision and later found out that it was incorrect. What did you do to resolve the issue?
  23. Suppose you are one week away from the product shipping date and discover a bug in your software. What do you do?
  24. You have a linked list and don't know how long it is; how do you find the middle of it?
  25. How would you test a keyboard?
  26. How would you test a pen?
  27. Write code for finding a duplicate in an array.
  28. Write code that returns the length of a string without using any built-in functions.
  29. Reverse a Singly Linked List with and without using Recursion.
  30. Determine if a Binary Search Tree is well formed.
  31. Reverse every word in a String (abc def becomes cba fed).
  32. Write a function that returns the angle between the hour and the minute hands of a clock, given input of the time.
  33. Write a function that takes a string consisting of numeral characters and returns all possible alpha character strings of same length as input that correspond to the keypad of a typical telephone.
  34. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?
  35. How would you test an elevator?
  36. How would you test a vending machine?
  37. How would you test a program that takes in two points and outputs the distance between the two points?
  38. Test the Windows scroll bar.
  39. Switch every pair of words in a string ("ab cd ef gh" becomes "cd ab gh ef")
  40. Write the function for strstr function (finding a substring inside a string)
  41. Reverse the order of words in a string ("ab cd ef gh" becomes "gh ef cd ab")
  42. Write the function for string comparison. How would you test it?
  43. Write a function to zero all duplicate values in an integer array. How would you test it?
  44. Write a function that compares two strings and returns a third string containing only the letters that appear in both.
  45. Find cycles in a singly linked list, using minimal storage.
  46. Shift all elements of a circular array by k bytes, using no extra memory.
  47. For an array of size n, print all pairs that add to k. (then, do the same thing with a sorted array)

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