Re: Possiblity of determining one's own 'level'

Again, ++ for effort, but I think you're confusing levels with something that actually *means* something :)

This idea of "perl knowledge" is extremely variable - someone could be a 'Perl Expert', but a poor programmer, and vice versa - but that's not all the monastery is about. Generally, my more useful contributions here have been to do with broader matters of application design, UI, or even 'attitude'. Where 'problems' are concerned, I'm *nowhere near* writing the book, but I'm fairly good at putting myself in the position of a newbie and understanding what they're trying to achieve, and that's what I think my XP reflects.

The sheer fact that (I hope {g} ) your XP will rise due to this Discussion reflects your input into the community - as an idea, it may be rejected, but as a means of provoking discussion, it's great :)

cheers,
Ben.

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Re: Re: Possiblity of determining one's own 'level' by jonnyfolk (Vicar) on May 12, 2003 at 17:55 UTC
Thanks for your comments benn, and tone in particular. An oasis in a desert of scorn, perhaps? In actual fact it doesn't matter whether the XP means anything or not. They are definitely an inbuilt convenient set of levels which could be used to demarcate certain levels of knowledge. At that point monks could start to contribute links to their preferred nodes, or new illustrations, which could help situate the general level which one might think ought to be the goal of a monk before they ascribe to the next level. The main point is that the result would be a disparate area of knowledge which could be browsed by the user knowing that all the information would be either within his range or at least attainable with a little more study. I just happen to think that would be useful, that's all. And if all this ended in an evolution of the concept of XP so they did develop some sort of meaning, so what? The general concensus of the great and the good on the site seems to be that XP do not, cannot and will not ever mean anything. Like a mantra really. A bit of evolution never hurt (tell that to the neanderthals) - and what perl version are we on now? :)	[reply]

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Re: Re: Possiblity of determining one's own 'level'
by jonnyfolk (Vicar) on May 12, 2003 at 17:55 UTC

benn

In actual fact it doesn't matter whether the XP means anything or not. They are definitely an inbuilt convenient set of levels which could be used to demarcate certain levels of knowledge. At that point monks could start to contribute links to their preferred nodes, or new illustrations, which could help situate the general level which one might think ought to be the goal of a monk before they ascribe to the next level. The main point is that the result would be a disparate area of knowledge which could be browsed by the user knowing that all the information would be either within his range or at least attainable with a little more study.

I just happen to think that would be useful, that's all. And if all this ended in an evolution of the concept of XP so they did develop some sort of meaning, so what? The general concensus of the great and the good on the site seems to be that XP do not, cannot and will not ever mean anything. Like a mantra really. A bit of evolution never hurt (tell that to the neanderthals) - and what perl version are we on now? :)

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