Simple excercises for learning a new language

Question

I remember stumbling onto a list of basic algorithms to implement in a new language to get your head around how the language does thing, but I seem to have lost the link to it.

What simple tasks/code snippets would you recomend one undertakes to pick get a good feeling of a language?

I'm not talking developing large applications or anything the kind of things I'm thinking about are writing a linked list then extending it to a doubly linked list. Implementing various sort/search algorithms, etc.

Excercises that would help somone who knows how to program in one language get up to speed as quickly as possible in a new language.

Answer 1

I usually take a couple of random problems from Project Euler: http://projecteuler.net/