Re: Perl Exercises: For Beginners

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Perl Exercises: For Beginners

Re: Other technologies with Perl

http://projecteuler.net/

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

http://programmingpraxis.com/

http://codekata.pragprog.com/

Perl Puzzles

L-99: Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems

Running a Perl Quiz Night

Recommended Reading

Re: Real Life Perl Exercises

Rosetta Code

Greplin Programming Challenge

H-99: Ninety-Nine Haskell Problems

Code Golf

In addition to all of the above that applies to beginners, start writing file-listers :) Say, write a program that lists all the files in your home directory, sorted by date, sorted by size, grouped by file-extension ... oh look, search a group of directories for movie files, of at least 1mb, sorted by date ... things like that

[Anonymous Monk]

This reminds me, a lot of computer science courses come with exercises, like turn this input into piglatin, so

programming exercises pig latin

IT508 - INTERNET PROGRAMMING - CLASS 2ASSIGNMENT

CSCI 517 Natural Language Processing (Spring 1999)Programming exercise #2: due Monday January 25Pig Latin Applet

Course 10 Exercises

Computer Science 202

The Object Game - An Exercise for Studying Objects

Introduction to Computer Science using Java

Introduction to Computer Science using Java

CodingBat - online code practice

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And I just want to say, keep track of which exercises you do, put your efforts into version control -- its amazing to be able to revisit your code 1, 5, 10 years later

[Anonymous Monk]

The free book http://learn.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ has a few exercises at the end of each chapter, and its truly geared towards beginners