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This morning, I took the Programming Concepts test. I was slightly disturbed that I actually scored higher on this one than the Perl test, since I felt significantly less confident in my answers. (Although, I realized late last night that I made at least two stupid mistakes on the Perl test by skimming perldoc a little too fast.)

I also felt like this test wasn’t as good as the Perl one, probably as a side effect of covering a broader and vaguer subject area. In particular, the language used in a number of questions (especially related to OO concepts) was rather confusing and unclear, in my opinion. Given the debates that regularly take place on some of these topics, it seemed like a guessing game of which camp the author of the question was in. There was also at least one debugging question that seemed like a matter of opinion (debugger and breakpoints vs. isolation and unit testing).