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.
*==============================================================================* | Tim Maher, CEO, CONSULTIX (206) 781-UNIX; (866) DOC-PERL; (866) DOC-LINUX | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] teachmeunix.com teachmeperl.com teachmelinux.net | | JULY 8-11: OO Perl Fundamentals; JULY 29-31: Database Prog. with Perl | *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * | NEW Seminar Series! "DAMIAN CONWAY's Adv. Perl Workshop"; Seattle 7/15-19 | | Adv. OOP * Adv. Module Techniques * Programming Perl 6 * Text Parsing | *==============================================================================* On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:29:35PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > 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 wondering if anyone would > >be interested in contributing to an openly > >available set of exercises that any Perl trainer > >could have access to ? > > > >The idea would be to provide a set of graded > >exercises that are suitable for beginning/ > >intermediate/advanced/whatever Perl programmers, > >maybe with solutions, maybe not, that anyone > >involved in Perl training could use. > > > >I see the following advantages: > > > >1. the quality of Perl training generally may > >improve, if trainers do not have to spend a > >large amount of time thinking up exercises. > > > >2. It would set a standard against which a > >student could evaluate a course; if an intermediate > >course fails to cover material deemed to be > >itermediate by the exercise set, then maybe > >there's a problem. > > It is advantageous in the sense that exercises are the most difficult > part of the course to come up with IMHO. This ought to improve their > quality. > > >OTOH, I see a big disadvantage: maybe noone would > >want to contribute their exercise ideas, as it > >would allow people to leech off their hard work > >in thinking them up; in short, maybe exercises > >represent too much investment in IPR to share. > >My POV is that the most important IPR in a training > >course resides in the quality of the course material, > >and the contents of the presenter's head, but > >maybe others will disagree. > > Presenter's head first, but I'd probably rate the exercises and course > materials neck and neck. > > The biggest disadvantage I see is in the prerequisites. Particularly > in the more elementary classes, an exercise solution is likely to > include something that hasn't been taught by that stage of a particular > presenter's class. It's not really practical to give an exercise and > say, "By the way, for this exercise you'll need to know the substr(), > index(), and reverse() functions, none of which I considered important > enough to have taught by this stage." And you won't get consensus from > trainers about whether they should have taught the "while (<>)" > construct by the time they get to hashes, for example. > > With enough examples to choose from this is less of a problem. > > >(and of course, there are other potential > >problems: who can contribute ? who decides the > >level of difficulty of a problem ? who hosts > >the set of problems ? etc) > > > >Anyone want to blow this idea out of the > >water ? > > > >Steve Collyer > > > >--------------------------------------------- > >Stephen Collyer > >Netspinner Ltd 01722 336125 > > -- > Peter Scott > Pacific Systems Design Technologies > http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- *==============================================================================* | Tim Maher, CEO, CONSULTIX (206) 781-UNIX; (866) DOC-PERL; (866) DOC-LINUX | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] teachmeunix.com teachmeperl.com teachmelinux.net | | JULY 8-11: OO Perl Fundamentals; JULY 29-31: Database Prog. with Perl | *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * | NEW Seminar Series! "DAMIAN CONWAY's Adv. Perl Workshop"; Seattle 7/15-19 | | Adv. OOP * Adv. Module Techniques * Programming Perl 6 * Text Parsing | *==============================================================================*
