Fizz Buzz Exercise

The Classic Fizz Buzz Problem

Fizz Buzz is a classic simple problem in computer science.

Often used as an exercise in interviews for programmers.

Apparently a LOT of people applying for jobs as profesional developers can’t do this in an interview:

(http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuzzTest)

Now that I’ve psyched you out – it’s really pretty straightforward.

Goal:

• Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100 inclusive.
• But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number
• For the multiples of five print “Buzz”.
• For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz” instead.

Hint:

• Look up the % operator. What do these do?
  • 10 % 7
  • 14 % 7

(try that in iPython)

• Do try to write a solution before looking it up – there are a million nifty solutions posted on the web, but you’ll learn a lot more if you figure it out on your own first.

Results:

Running your code should result in something like:

1
2
Fizz
4
Buzz
Fizz
7
8
Fizz
Buzz
11
Fizz
13
14
FizzBuzz
16
....