{"id":449,"date":"2007-07-24T23:20:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/language-scavenger-hunt\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T23:27:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T06:27:56","slug":"language-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/language-scavenger-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many fun programming languages out there, and more emerging all the time. But who has time to learn them all? I certainly don’t, but I still want to learn. One issue I have is that I don’t learn that well by reading through a language reference or a tutorial. I learn best by doing, and when it comes to learning a new language, I learn best when I have a specific task I am trying to accomplish. To that end, I was thinking that it would nice to have a list of essential, yet simple, programming exercises, preferably ones that are suited for higher level languages. These would give me concrete goals to research whilst attempting to learn a new language. Further, I would build up a small repository of sample programs to which I could refer later. When I need to write something in Perl, my chief method of refreshing my skill is to look back on similar code I wrote as many as 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

I did a cursory Google search for something along these lines, but came up empty-handed. It may be necessary to start assembling a list of my own. This would include items like:<\/p>\n