curve, but don't feel bad if you take significantly longer or shorter. Sometimes it's just a matter of how many times you've faced similar programming tasks in your studies or jobs. Use the numbers merely as a guideline. Every exercise has its answer in the Appendix. Again, try not to peek; you'll ruin the value of the exercise. 1.4. What If I'm a Perl Course Instructor? If you're a Perl instructor who has decided to use this as your textbook, you should know that each set of exercises is short enough for most students plete in 45 minutes to an hour, with a little time left over for a break. Some chapters' exercises should be quicker, and some may take longer. That's because once all those little numbers in square brackets were written, we discovered that we didn't know how to add. - 10 -
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