in reply to Perl quiz for beginners

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
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

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Re^2: Perl quiz for beginners
by jassics (Initiate) on Sep 09, 2011 at 14:52 UTC
    Nice to know about you Peter. This quiz was just to make familiar with these terms so that nobody says that being a novice you don't know what is what. From the next session it will be fully practically code based and will have three level.....novice, intermediate and expert for each and every topic............... Ex: questions on variables Question on inbuilt functions for variables etc or all of you can suggest us topic, contribute few question then we together can come up with nice quiz which will be helpful for all sort of people in Perl domain
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      Me, being me, would ask questions like 

       
What value is printed using the following code?

my $i="abc";
$i++;
print $i,"\n";

      [download]

      Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
      Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg
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        And that is a beginner question?

        Be honest, do you have to think harder if the code was

        my $i = "amz";
print ++$i, "\n";

        [download]

        ?


        Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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