Well, they do say you are allowed to use online references
and books, so that's part of the reason for the time limit.
In the real world, you're not expected to know everything,
but you had better know how to find the answers.
I scored higher than I expected, though (4.21). I was thinking
I got more answers wrong than that. I certainly don't feel like a
Certified Master Perl Programmer when I see some of the posts
on Perl Monks :)
One thing they could improve on: they give you lots of examples
and ask "What does this print out?". It's trivial to cut and
paste their code from the test window into an xterm and run it and
get the result without having to think about it critically.
They could fix this by having the code printed inside a PNG
image using GD or something similar, so cut-and-paste would be
not be an option.
Hmm, maybe Perl Monks could start some sort of certification
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Good idea. They should have the code in a non-cut-paste format. I didn't see that they said you can use online help, I simply went for the test.
I think the idea of Perl Monks starting a cert program is bad. I do hope you were joking. For any one group to start a cert program, they need to have some kind of credibility in the subject and industry. This topic does come up from time to time on other parts of the community which a am regular. I haven't seen anything come of it yet.
Cheers,
KM
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Heh, yeah I was (kind of) kidding about that. Although it might
be fun having an Official Perl Monks Certificate of Rank
(hand-written in Latin on a scroll) after having acheived a
certain level. Heck, I'd pay good money for that :)
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Well, I scored a 4.53 when Netscape didn't crash. But
I don't know what that's supposed to mean when the
"correct" answers are backslashing non-special characters
like < & > in regexes and using map in
a void context.
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