Re: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?
[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz)) 25 Jun 2002 18:05:47 -0700
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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. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!