Problems to solve for Perl Beginners

There are some great posts on Perl monks about how to learn Perl. And a lot of books and tutorials to learn from.

But, once I learn something, I would like to practice it on a real world problem. A lot of posts have problems seeking solutions, and these can be rephrased into 'Write a program to... ' type of questions for beginners. Or, we could just link to those posts from a central place, and point the beginners to it.

The aim would be to create an opportunity for effective learning as defined on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - the most effective learning requires a well-defined task with an appropriate difficulty level for the particular individual, informative feedback, and opportunities for repetition and corrections of errors.

Has this been done or tried before? How do we make it work?

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Re: Problems to solve for Perl Beginners by FunkyMonk (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2011 at 10:10 UTC
Google's first hit for beginners programming exercises leads to http://spoj.pl (via Digg). That's a collection of 2000+ exercises. Perl: perlintro perlretut Basic debugging checklist Yes, even you can use CPAN PerlMonks: How do I post a question effectively? Markup in the Monastery How do I post a question effectively? I know what I mean. Why don't you? General: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic To Be Continued...	[reply]
Re^2: Problems to solve for Perl Beginners by koolgirl (Hermit) on Aug 15, 2011 at 02:15 UTC
++ FunkyMonk, great link. "The unexamined life is not worth living." -- Socrates "The idea, is to make a compromise, somewhere between your ambitions, and your limitations." -- The Teahouse of the August Moon	[reply]
Re: Problems to solve for Perl Beginners by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Aug 14, 2011 at 08:14 UTC
Yes, this question comes up a lot. See for example Re: Real Life Perl Exercises and Re: Perl Exercises: For Beginners. Also, this recent thread may be of interest: Where Do I Go Next?. Update: See also The 2011 Perl 6 coding contest.	[reply]
Re^2: Problems to solve for Perl Beginners by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Aug 14, 2011 at 15:47 UTC
Actually, the whole Perl Exercises: For Beginners thread was an extremely good thread on the topic. --perl.j	[reply]


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