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Every Wednesday I send out a Perl quiz, usually a request to write a program or function to perform a certain task. The 'regular' quiz can be solved using only techniques and functions found in Learning Perl (3rd edition) by Schwartz and Phoenix. The 'expert' quiz may be difficult. The two kinds of quizzes appear on alternate weeks.
There are three mailing lists related to the Quiz of the Week.
The main mailing list is perl-qotw. It has very low traffic. Each week, it gets only a few messages: a quiz on Wednesday, a post with sample solutions on the following Monday, and possibly an administrative note. (In the past 7 days, perl-qotw has received exactly 3 messages.)
perl-qotw does not carry any discussion, solutions posted by list readers, questions, comments, or chat. All those things are directed to the second list, perl-qotw-discuss.
perl-qotw-discuss has high traffic----6 messages in the last 7 days, and sometimes as many as 100 or 200. If that is more traffic than you would like to receive, you may want to subscribe to perl-qotw-discuss-digest instead. You will receive the perl-qotw-discuss messages grouped into batches of 30, organized into threads, and sent as a single file.
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Quizzes and sample solutions are supplied by volunteers. We can only have quizzes if people volunteer to do this. To volunteer to supply a quiz and a sample solution, see these instructions and send a note to perl-qotw-submit. If you need quiz ideas, have a look at my quiz ideas files.
If you would be willing to translate this web page into some other language, see my notes for translators.
Nobody but me gets to post to perl-qotw. Posts to perl-qotw have Reply-to: perl-qotw-discuss. If anyone posts to perl-qotw by mistake, their message comes to my mailbox and I send it back.
Posting to perl-qotw-discuss is restricted to subscribers of that list. Posts that appear to be from nonsubscribers come to my mailbox. Then I figure out if that person really is a subscriber; if so, I send it along, and if not, I send it back. Sometimes I also send back messages that violate the rules below.
Nobody at all is allowed to post to perl-qotw-digest. Digests are generated and sent automatically by a program.
List members are strongly requested to wait 60 hours after the quiz is posted before sending any hints, proposed solutions, or other spoilers to perl-qotw-discuss.
After 60 hours, it is all right to send messages with hints or to show sample solutions. Any such messages should have [SPOILER] in the subject field.
Abusive language will not be tolerated.
Where should I send my solution?
You don't have to send it anywhere. The point of doing the quiz is to have done it; it doesn't really matter if anyone else sees it. You might want to send it to perl-qotw-discuss if you think it's particularly good, if you want comments on it, or if it seems to show a different approach from the solutions that have been posted there already. If you do this, please be sure to wait at least sixty hours after the quiz was originally posted.
I missed this week's quiz. Is it archived anywhere?
Why should I wait sixty hours before posting solutions?
I didn't want participants to focus on who could produce an answer most quickly. So there's a sixty-hour moratorium on posting solutions to give everyone a chance to think about their answers carefully. More details are here.
But I just can't wait!
Okay. Send your solution to perl-qotw-hasty.
What if I want to suggest a quiz topic?
Send it to perl-qotw-submit.
Regular quizzes
The most recent regular quiz was #26, sent on Thu Oct 14 16:50:06 2004.
Expert quizzes
The most recent expert quiz was #26, sent on Thu Oct 21 08:10:10 2004.
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