I'm not sure your quiz is quite the right tool to test the knowledge of beginning Perl programmers. Having taught Perl at the college level I am speaking from experience.

If your the objective of the test is to test a person's knowledge of Perl culture, then this quiz is OK. However if you are trying to determine if someone at the beginner's level can program in the language then the quiz falls far short.

If I were designing the quiz I'd have asked more questions having to do with the actual programming of "things" in Perl (such as your questions about file descriptors, perlvars, etc) and less on TLAs and history.

But then, that's just how I write tests.

One thing I'd caution you on though when writing a test about programming in any language and especially Perl. There Is More Than One Way to Do It comes to mind. What I'd consider to be the "right solution" to solve a problem may not be a student's "right solution" and both could be valid.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re: Perl quiz for beginners by blue_cowdawg
in thread Perl quiz for beginners by jassics

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