Re: Perl Competitions and Addition to PM system

Ok topic 2. As a competition enthusiast, I think it would be much appreciated to post competition like questions into its own section on PM. It can allow us to see how different people would tackle a situation and challange programers who are sitting around bored (on a teacher strike) looking for something to do

Have you seen Seekers of Perl Wisdom? People post a variety of questions, some easy, some hard, some real-world, some conceptual, some closely related to Perl, some only loosely. Then hundreds of people around the world post solutions (or critiques to other people's solutions) in a competition for "XP" -- a form of peer acclaim.

It's a great challenge for programmers who are sitting around bored looking for something to do.

(grin)

On a serious note, if you do organize something in the real world and want swag, I'd suggest approaching TPF or else working through a nearby Perl Mongers group that might have people with connections who can help.

-xdg

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Re^2: Perl Competitions and Addition to PM system by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 16, 2006 at 14:22 UTC
I almost would say that questions or quizes might be better as meditations than SoPW (you're not strictly looking for help, you're offering an exercise to improve ones Perl skills), but that's just me. On the topic of quizzes, I seem to remember there used to be one that MJD ran (but that got derailed by his work on HOP, I think :). The Ruby people have rubyquiz.com that's posted to ruby-talk semi-regularly, and I want to say someone used to do something similar on the fun-with-perl list. Might be interesting to take some of the Ruby quiz problems and compare solutions . . . :)	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Competitions and Addition to PM system by ysth (Canon) on Mar 17, 2006 at 09:20 UTC
I seem to remember there used to be one that MJD ran See http://perl.plover.com/qotw/. Just working through the old quizzes could be a lot of fun. In addition to the ones listed on the website, there were a few posted on the mailing list.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Competitions and Addition to PM system by zer (Deacon) on Mar 16, 2006 at 16:03 UTC
Ya SoPW is an excellent way to improve your abilities in the many diversities of perl. But it is true problem driven as opposed to strictly skill building. There is a post up that has 6 different simple questions that were part of a challenge. the problem is i want more :)	[reply]