RE: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:30 PM
> To: [email protected]; Perl Trainers
> Subject: Re: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?
 
> The biggest disadvantage I see is in the prerequisites.  Particularly 
> in the more elementary classes, an exercise solution is likely to 
> include something that hasn't been taught by that stage of a particular 
> presenter's class.  It's not really practical to give an exercise and 
> say, "By the way, for this exercise you'll need to know the substr(), 
> index(), and reverse() functions, none of which I considered important 
> enough to have taught by this stage."  And you won't get consensus from 
> trainers about whether they should have taught the "while (<>)" 
> construct by the time they get to hashes, for example.
 
See my response to Tom Phoenix that covers this point. In brief:

1. Lots of exercises (maybe with multiple solutions).
2. Trainer chooses the right set for the course.
3. Problem solved.

Steve Collyer