Tr: PM activity: Perl quiz bowl (fwd)

Stephane Rondal rondal at usa.net
Mon Aug 7 02:13:23 CDT 2000


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From: brian d foy <tidbit at sri.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 11:18 PM
Subject: PM activity: Perl quiz bowl (fwd)


> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2000 23:57:00 -0500
> From: Ken Williams <ken at forum.swarthmore.edu>
> To: user_groups at pm.org
> Subject: PM activity: Perl quiz bowl
> 
> Hi PM folks,
> 
> I just got back from a Minneapolis.pm meeting and thought I'd report on
> what we did, since it was pretty fun.  I organized a "Perl Jam", which
> was sort of a Perl quiz show activity.  If there's any way of contacting
> leaders of established groups, I thought perhaps other people might be
> interested in leading a similar activity without having to spend all
> the time I spent writing questions.  Is there such a contact list?
> 
> Briefly:  I borrowed a quiz buzzer set from the high school I used to
> teach at (most schools have a quiz bowl team or something, and they
> usually have a set of buzzers), I wrote a bunch of questions in XML
> format, and wrote a tool for turning those into web pages for displaying
> on the projector screen at our meeting.  These are available at:
> 
>     The quiz starting point:
>       http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~ken/perljam/html/1-ask.html
>     The question data file:
>       http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~ken/perljam/html/perljam.xml
>     The test-building tool:
>       http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~ken/perljam/html/perljam.pl
>     The moderator's cheat sheet:
>       http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~ken/perljam/key.html
> 
> I probably don't want to keep the question data file up on my site much
> longer, since if anyone else is interested in using this stuff it would
> kind of defeat the purpose if the questions & answers were publically
> available. =)
> 
> I had people bring laptops for the meeting, because there were several
> questions that required the players to write code that performed
> specific tasks.  We divided into two teams, and team collaboration was
> encouraged on the coding exercises but not allowed on the toss-up
> questions.
> 
> I found that the questions were perhaps a little too tough for our
> group, especially some of the coding exercises.  The players got them
> eventually, but it took a while.  The questions might be about right or
> too easy for groups like Philly.pm or Boston.pm that have a lot of smart
> fellers.
> 
> 
> 
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