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Stephen Day

2005-04-18, 3:56 pm


Hello,

Does anyone know of a website that lists some programming exercises to help in
learning perl?

I find it a lot easier to learning a language if I have exercises to apply it
to.

Robert

2005-04-18, 8:56 pm

"Stephen Day" <s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:200504181847.44286.s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk...
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of a website that lists some programming exercises to
> help in
> learning perl?
>
> I find it a lot easier to learning a language if I have exercises to apply
> it
> to.
>


Yes. Funny enough they are in a book called "Learning Perl". : )

Robert

P.S. Not associated with the book or author in any way unless you count that
I too am going through the book.


Stephen Day

2005-04-18, 8:56 pm

On Monday 18 April 2005 7:39 pm, Robert wrote:
> "Stephen Day" <s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:200504181847.44286.s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk...
>
>
> Yes. Funny enough they are in a book called "Learning Perl". : )


I have that book and am going though them rather fast.

I was hoping for a link to a website that has a few more.


John Doe

2005-04-18, 8:56 pm

Hi Stephen

Am Montag, 18. April 2005 22.41 schrieb Stephen Day:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 7:39 pm, Robert wrote:
>
> I have that book and am going though them rather fast.
>
> I was hoping for a link to a website that has a few more.


I don't know about explicit "learning perl websites", but I think existent
perl modules - from perl core or from cpan.org - are very good resources.

Choose small ones, or some with "easy" functionality to start with.
Look for adequate comments in the code.

An advantage of widely used code is that it is "real" code; many learning
examples are not practically usable due to lack of e.g. security measures (my
personal opinion).

hth, joe

Charles K. Clarkson

2005-04-19, 3:57 am

Stephen Day <mailto:s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk> wrote:

: I have that book and am going though them rather fast.
:
: I was hoping for a link to a website that has a few more.

Go to perlmonks.com. Try to answer any question in the
New Questions section. Compare your answer with the answer
given by others. Feel free to skip difficult questions,
there are a few thousand questions on the site.


HTH,

Charles K. Clarkson
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254 968-8328

Randal L. Schwartz

2005-04-19, 3:57 am

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert <catcher@linuxmail.org> writes:

Robert> Yes. Funny enough they are in a book called "Learning Perl". : )

Robert> P.S. Not associated with the book or author in any way unless you count that
Robert> I too am going through the book.

/me is associated with the book and the author, and concurs. :)

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Randal L. Schwartz

2005-04-19, 8:55 am

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles K Clarkson <cclarkson@htcomp.net> writes:

Charles> Go to perlmonks.com. Try to answer any question in the
Charles> New Questions section. Compare your answer with the answer
Charles> given by others. Feel free to skip difficult questions,
Charles> there are a few thousand questions on the site.

When last I checked (a moment ago), 50 questions represented 0.11% of
the database, so that'd put it at about 50,000 questions. That seems
about right.

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Peter Scott

2005-04-19, 3:56 pm

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:41:46 +0100, Stephen Day wrote:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 7:39 pm, Robert wrote:
>
> I have that book and am going though them rather fast.
>
> I was hoping for a link to a website that has a few more.


Nigel Chapman's book "Perl: The Programmer's Companion" also has plenty of
good exercises.

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Jay Savage

2005-04-19, 3:56 pm

On 4/18/05, Charles K. Clarkson <cclarkson@htcomp.net> wrote:
> Stephen Day <mailto:s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> : I have that book and am going though them rather fast.
> :
> : I was hoping for a link to a website that has a few more.
>=20
> Go to perlmonks.com. Try to answer any question in the
> New Questions section. Compare your answer with the answer
> given by others. Feel free to skip difficult questions,
> there are a few thousand questions on the site.
>=20
> HTH,
>=20
> Charles K. Clarkson


I was going to say just read threads here and figure out how you'd
answer them. Same basic principle.

--jay
Gerard Robin

2005-04-20, 3:56 pm

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:47:44PM +0100 Stephen Day wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of a website that lists some programming exercises to help in
> learning perl?
>
> I find it a lot easier to learning a language if I have exercises to apply it
> to.



I don't know if I reply exactly to what you need, but there are a few links:

http://docs.rinet.ru/
http://www.motreja.com/
http://learn.perl.org/

if you can read a few words in french:

http://www.perlfr.org/
http://www.enstimac.fr/perl/

Hope this helps.

--
Gérard

Randal L. Schwartz

2005-04-20, 3:56 pm

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Day <s.l.day-perl@sednet.co.uk> writes:
[color=darkred]

Stephen> I have that book and am going though them rather fast.

Then read the sequel, "Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules".
Otherwise known as the Alpaca book.

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