Perl Exercises: For Beginners

[perl.j]

Are there any websites or books that have excersises for perl? I have used Perl Cookbook but it wasn't what I was looking for. I'm looking for something that gives you an idea of a problem and you have to solve it. If there is nothing of the sort that exists is there a way we could get this page on PerlMonks (That last sentence was for the Monks). Thanks in advance!

[toolic]

Super Search where title contains "exercise". Maybe your own search wasn't fruitful because you misspelled "excersises"

2011-04-21	mikeraz	Log parsing exercises for Perl beginner - reasonable?	SoPW
2009-09-11	paragkalra	Exercises on PERL	SoPW
2007-03-16	Mike_Hamilton_Perl	New 2 Perl Programming - Anybody have any good reference or data structure exercises I could work on?	SoPW
2006-05-27	mikasue	Real Life Perl Exercises	SoPW
2006-05-18	jesuashok	Perl Exercises	SoPW
2005-04-14	ropey	Learning Exercises	SoPW
2005-04-13	David Arnold	Parsing Exercise set	SoPW
2003-11-26	phenom	Exercises Node	PMD
2003-09-19	IlyaM	Combine LWP::Simple with XML::LibXML to download Go exercises	CUFP
2003-04-30	hiddengeek	exercise in regex	SoPW
2002-08-10	Anonymous Monk	Exercises	PMD
2002-08-01	bilfurd	Simple LWP Exercise	Med
2002-07-18	Foncé	Learning Exercise	SoPW
2002-07-17	TuXaS	perl exercises for newbies	SoPW
2002-03-17	munchie	Beginner's Object Orientation Exercises?	SoPW
2002-02-07	talexb	Roff done as an OO exercise	Craft
2002-02-06	Anonymous Monk	practice exercises	SoPW
2001-03-18	jcwren	An exercise in "That's not the way I'd do it" (TNTWIDI)	Med
2001-03-16	deprecated	Regex Exercise	SoPW
2001-01-26	ailie	a learning exercise - diary program	SoPW
2000-10-25	japhy	Fun Regex Exercise	Med
2000-04-25	sethg	a data-compression exercise	Obfu

If none of those links suit you, read through Seekers of Perl Wisdom and try to solve the basic problems by yourself without looking at the replies.

[FunkyMonk]

A couple of old (but still fun) links:
• Perl Quiz of the Week (two every week, regular and expert)
• Ruby Quiz (the solutions and discussions are Ruby, but that doesn't stop you attempting Perl solutions)

[perl.j]

Thanks so much for the sites and links. I also found a link. It is...

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/index.php

[Anonymous Monk]

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

...

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

[planetscape]

See also: homework

[perl.j]

Thanks to everyone who helped!

[RedElk]

If you haven't seen these before, you might enjoy the puzzles located here.