Re: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?

[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz)) 25 Jun 2002 18:05:47 -0700
Newsgroups perl.trainers
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Fenwick <[email protected]> writes:

Paul> In my experience, what are "boring" exercises to someone who knows
Paul> the material is almost always interesting to someone who's just
Paul> learnt it a few minutes ago.  Read in a line of numbers entered by
Paul> the user and sort them in ascending order?  Sounds boring, but to
Paul> someone who's just discovered sort, split and reverse, it's quite
Paul> a challenge.

And you also want exercises that people can get *done* as well.  If
you give them an easy one, a medium one, and a hard one, they should
at least be able to do the easy one, and get some sense that they
learned *something*.

Also, I've seen variation of an *order of magnitude* in speed to
complete exercises.  So definitely you need things that will challenge
the fast coders.

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