Google Foobar is a invite-only coding challenge that Google uses to hire software developers. Certain terms associated with coding will cause a secret invitation to pop up in one's browser saying:
"You're speaking our language. Up for a challenge?
| I want to play | No thanks | Don't show me this again |
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If the user accepts the invitation, then they will receive a series of ten coding problems from Google and will be given a strict time frame in which to complete each project. If they complete all the problems, then they skip ahead in the Google hiring process.
browserTabs.py is my attempt at being automatically selected for the Google Foobar Challenge.
In browserTabs.py, I took a list of computer science terms from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_computer_science and loaded them into lotsOfTerms.txt and searchTerms.txt. The program then chooses to random terms, randomly chooses between either "Python" or "Java", and creates a string in the following format:
str(term1) + " and " + str(term2 + " in " + str(language))
The program then waits a doubly-random amount of seconds. Doubly-random means that randomly chooses either 2 or 3 and multiplies that by a random number in the range [0, 1). With simply singly-random wait time, the google servers will block the user's IP address.
browserTabs.py waits the specified doubly-random wait time, then opens a browswer in Google and searches for the string.