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From: Brad Lhotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Camilo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Standarized tests Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:40:24 -0500 User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opening the proverbial can o' worms here aren't ya? :) Rather than restate this debate, here are some relevant threads from the perl community on this topic: http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=17816&cid=27231 http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=316331 http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=62244 Perl's TIMTOWTDI has proven quite an obstacle to standardized testing and certifications. The stance of the majority of the community is that testing proves nothing but how well you can memorize things. Perl's broad scope and community backed development infrastructure have made it practically impossible to classify what a CGI/Web Developer might need. HTML::Mason, Template-Toolkit, and pure CGI.pm based applications are all relevant, but which is "necessary" to be a CGI/Web Developer? So do we test on the just the core language? How many times do you use Text::Wrap? How many times do you use DBI? There exist tests for perl "certification", but the bottom line is that they're all incomplete in some facet. A relatively experienced programmer who writes good code, could do poorly on one of these tests as he's like specialized his talent to a certain group of modules/applications. Likewise, a newbie with no experience in actually writing perl with a background in C could likely ace the test after taking some initiative reading the Camel or Llama. This topic usually turns into a heated debate fairly quickly. On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:09:40AM -0600, Camilo Gonzalez wrote: > Are there any standarized tests one can take to measure one's Perl > prowess? How much are they and where can I find them? > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > -- Brad Lhotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Brad Lhotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
