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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