Re: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Collyer <[email protected]> writes:

>> The exercises in the Llama are tied pretty closely to their chapters. If
>> we were to make an open-source set of exercises, would you want to follow
>> the same chapter structure? If your course materials use a different
>> structure, an exercise might require looping before you had taught that,
>> say. (Of course, if it's open source, it would simply be a jumping-off
>> point.)

Stephen> My grand plan would avoid that tricky problem entirely. (Does
Stephen> that merit one of those feeble <laughter type=Mwuhahaha>
Stephen> attempts at witticism ?).  I had in mind a large set of
Stephen> exercises, of all types, from which a trainer could pick and
Stephen> mix an appropriate set to cover what he/she wanted to teach.

But you've not addressed Tom's point.  One of the hard things about
creating exercises is knowing how much (or little) of Perl and outside
knowledge you can use or rely upon for both the question and the
answer.  There's a path here... You can't get to chapter 8 without
doing chapter 7.  So it's a bit unrealistic to think that you could
use chapter 8 exercises without also covering chapter 7 materials.

Some of the later Llama stuff is more isolated, but the early Llama
chapters are definitely linear.

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