I decided to post this question here since this section is for discussions of non-programming related issues. But to tell you the truth, I really dont know if this is the right place to post this question but here it goes.

I was tasked by my superior to check the knowledge level of our developers on Perl. Previously, the developers were asked to learn Perl by self-study. Time was the only thing provided (no training). After 3 months, the developers are saying that they have learned a lot and have used it on their work. But we dont have any idea on how to gauge their knowledge gained.

Will you guys suggest on how to do this? how to gauge/check their knowledge so that we can have an idea which of our developers has potential or whom needs more training or time to learn.

We noticed that they are using perl on their work and most of their scripts are working. But how are we going to know if what they did is the best practice or the best way to do that. Note that we dont have a senior level or an experience developer to check their code.

Any suggestion, comments are welcome. And if you think that this question is not for this section, you can remove it but please tell me the section where I should post this.

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Perl Test by Faoahy

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