RE: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?

At 09:09 AM 6/25/02 -0400, Christopher Hicks wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Stephen Collyer wrote:
> > See my response to Tom Phoenix that covers this point. In brief:
> >
> > 1. Lots of exercises (maybe with multiple solutions).

TIMTOWTDI? :-)  Although personally, I think each instructor should 
come up with their own solution, it's the one they'll find most defensible.

> > 2. Trainer chooses the right set for the course.
> > 3. Problem solved.
>
>There should be some schema (XML, SQL inserts or something) for exchanging
>exercises.  From what has been talked about so far I would think there
>should be a variety of meta-information available too:

ETOOCOMPLICATED.  The thing that counts is the idea.  For the most 
part, this could be expressed in a few sentences ("Write a program to 
do XYZ.  Find a way to use map().")  And then there are the 
fill-in-the-blank exercises ("Some of the program below has already 
been written for you. [...] Replace this comment with code that will XYZ.")

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