if the kid's too lazy to prepare for his interview, he doesn't deserve the job and WILL fail in it if he does get it.

So do I. But I also know that when the manufacturer no longer sells/supports it there's NO legal way to download it legally.
As you claim to know that it's no longer for sale yet you want to know...

Legal copies can't be downloaded, so you can't be looking for a legal copy...

from the manufacturer website you can no doubt purchase Maya.
If Maya 4 no longer is sold, the manufacturer of that editor plugin will have made a version for a current version of Maya.
We're not...

the code shows its worth in the 2nd line...

Seeing as the kid is talking about C, why should it know about classes and objects?
It doesn't seem interested in learning to program itself anyway, only in tricking people into giving it a complete...

Of course some communities may not officially allow illegal stuff but have admins who are either too ignorant or too lazy to police their sites properly.

If I knew of such communities I'd however...

aaargh, darn site is way too slow to post the reply and ends up posting it twice.

Indeed there is no "best". Do you think anything else would survive in the market if one program was "best" in such a way that it alone was suitable for anything and everything?
At most there may be...