Here's an excellent exercise for newbies & gurus alike: Seekers of Perl Wisdom.

Spend some time perusing the newest questions posted by others. Try and answer them without first reading the replies. Then, take a look at the solutions offered by others, and see how your code could be improved. If you've got an original solution, or questions about another solution offered, post it! Perlmonks is quite newbie-friendly, so long as you show some effort.

Exercises? There are a multitude of things to do. The great thing about perl is in its exploration. Think of something and just do it!

Take a look at the Tutorials They can give you ideas on what to play.

You can also take a look at the Code Catacombs. People submit stuff for people to use. See if you can convert something and or improve it

It may sound like a great deal but that's how I learned. Each new attempt always teaches me something.

But if you need real newbie stuff. I would suggest playing around with arrays, hashing, and map. Try stuff like reversing, deleting, add and sorting. If you are going to do Web stuff, try the CGI. Again Tutorials will help you....

After you think you are good, try some obfuscation!

Just some ideas and welcome to the fold

However if you're not excited by those, the best way ( I think ) to learn is do something you are interested in. Self projects are infinitely more interesting than excersises in books and you'll gain something useful when you're done and learn something in the process.

Failing that, drop me a note and I'll zip up the exercises from the Perl class I took if you would like.

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...

but maybe you know some url's in internet, where i can find exercises by section?

One of the first exercises I was given to do when I was learning perl was re-writing standard unix tools in perl. For example: cat, cut, basename, dirname, echo, head, tail, ln, rm, ls, more, mail, etc...

there are hundreds of problems there, ranging from very simple to very complex, and you'll have a great fun digging through it.

BTW, the recipes are also posted daily on http://www.perl.com, if you *really* can't pull the bucks.

cheers,
Aldo

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I think it really depends on how "new" you are. I've been programming in Perl for 4 years - and there is still much I don't know. So I would consider myself a new user of a particular function or feature of Perl rather than of the whole language. Not all Perl programming challenges may be that challenging to you, it depends on your background and previous experience.

I started with Learning Perl from O'Reilly. The challenges in the back of each chapter were just what I needed to get a toe hold in Perl. I started with almost zero knowledge of programming. If you already have some programming knowledge then I would recommend something more challenging (like trying to rewrite the Perl Cookbook). ;-)