I see that there is a need for a website that asks questions, much like a CCNA asks online questions.

Perhaps a database of multiple choice questions would be scored. And then perhaps an eval section where you type your Perl answer and get a mark if the correct answer comes out.

This would, hopefully, be a free website or even a set of CGI scripts which a company could download and untar, and sit prospective candidates down to.

Scoring would be across a number of topics such as
- regexps
- operators
- functions/subs
- variables
- files
- os oddities
etc.

An interviewer would then be able to determine for themselves if the knowledge areas of the candidate were appropriate.

Nothing like a test to flush out the good from the good talkers.

In reply to Re: Evaluating Perl skills set by monarch
in thread Evaluating Perl skills set by abhinavvaid

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