Kids are very into their music, yet downloaded music files are often not well organized. There are a number of perl modules that can read the headers of an mp3 file (ie., Artist, Title, Album, etc). So, have your students create a program that:

A) sorts the music files on their pc,

B) creates directories (they decide how to organize the directory names),

C) move the files to the appropriate directory,

D) Clean up (remove) any empty directories,

E) Print summary reports of content, i.e. number of songs in each category: by artist, by genre, artist unknown, etc.

F) Extra Credit for any other bells and whistles.

You can use this project to satisfy multiple learning objectives. They can go to CPAN and do a search on mp3 to get a variety of modules they can use. The larger program can be built in smaller increments as they learn to search for directories, download modules, read documentation, etc.

Good luck!!!

In reply to Re: Perl Assignments Needed by perlofwisdom
in thread Perl Assignments Needed by exodist

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