Perl tests

[packetstormer]

This isn't really a coding question but I am moving through a book trying to learn Perl. I would love to be able to go to a site somewhere and get tested on some of the parts I just learned.

Does anyone know of such place? Somewhere that assigns tasks to test your knowledge? E.g

1) Write a perl script to accept a file name from a user then read the file, line by line, and check for the number of occurances of a character, provided by the user.

2) Create a hash with the days of February. Using keys and values functions split the %hash into arrays and loop through each key and display is value.

This are things I just made up now but I would love to be given small tasks to see if I really understand what I just learned. I find this forum useful because sometimes, when the questions are aimed at beginners, I take the question and try to solve it myself. Anyway, does anyone know of such a place?

[kcott]

Take a look at Perl Puzzles - that has quite a few links to the types of tasks/challenges that you seem to be after.

[packetstormer]

How did I miss that!? Thanks

[Ratazong]

You may also want to have a look at the following collection by planetscape: Re: Real Life Perl Exercises

It contains excercises as well as much usefull "beginner"-information.

HTH, Rata

[chrestomanci]

You might take a look at PythonChallenge.com It is a chained collection of puzzles which you solve by writing a computer program for each. The solution of each puzzle leads to the next one, so you can't solve them out of order.

Despite the name there is no requirement to use a specific programming language to solve the puzzles. There is a solutions Wiki where people have posted code to solve the problems in dozens of programming languages including perl.

A down side of the site is that you have to solve the problems in order, so if you get stuck on one, you cannot continue. Also as they are puzzles you need to have a Eureka moment on each to progress.

[iangibson]

I would add:
• Programming Challenges
• Project Euler
• UVa Online Judge
• Sphere Online Judge

The above should keep you busy for a long time! I also agree with your strategy of browsing the threads on this site and trying to come up with your own answers to some of the simpler problems.

[vertigo7]

http://www.rosettacode.org
450 programming tasks implemented in 348 languages, including perl.