On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:08:12PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Stephen == Stephen Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephen Will do. However, I have been unimpressed with the quality of
Stephen most of the free training material I have seen, so my expectations
Stephen won't be high.
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From: Tim Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Open Perl Exercises, anyone ?
Sometime back, Kirrily skud Roberts posted some Perl training materials
on the web (for all to use, if memory
In my experience, what are boring exercises to someone who knows
the material is almost always interesting to someone who's just
learnt it a few minutes ago. Read in a line of numbers entered by
the user and sort them in ascending order? Sounds boring, but to
someone who's just discovered
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).
2. Trainer chooses the right set for the course.
3. Problem solved.
There should be some schema (XML, SQL inserts or something)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:25:05AM +0100, Stephen Collyer wrote:
I had in mind a large set of exercises, of all types, from which a trainer
could pick and mix an appropriate set to cover what he/she wanted to teach.
It sounds like you're asking that someone set up a database of perl
exercises
G'day Stephen / Trainers,
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:24:32AM +0100, Stephen Collyer wrote:
polymorphism, redispatch, and many other topics along the way. By
the end of it, they have an (almost, no castling or en pasant) fully
working chess client which they can use to play against their
One of the problems I had when writing a Perl
training course was that of coming up with a
decent set of exercises, particularly ones that
are not too trivial or too difficult, and also
ones that are not too boring.
In view of this, I was wondering if anyone would
be interested in contributing
At 10:00 PM 6/24/02 +0100, Stephen Collyer wrote:
One of the problems I had when writing a Perl
training course was that of coming up with a
decent set of exercises, particularly ones that
are not too trivial or too difficult, and also
ones that are not too boring.
In view of this, I was
Sometime back, Kirrily skud Roberts posted some Perl training materials
on the web (for all to use, if memory serves). They were text-narrative
style, rather than the projection oriented, big-font bullet-item style
most trainers prefer, but they might be of use to some people.
