Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial 49
theodp writes: In an interesting contrast to the Disney princess-themed Hour of Code tutorial that 'taught President Obama to code' last December, Chile is kicking off its 2015 Hora del Codigo this week with a top-featured Blockly tutorial that teaches computer science by having kids drag-and-drop blocks of code to pick up dog poop. "Collect all the shit you have left your dog," reads the Google translated instructions for the final coding exercise. In its new video for the Hour of Code 2015 campaign, tech billionaire-backed Code.org notes that it's striving to reach 200 million schoolchildren worldwide by this December. Presumably towards that end, Code.org warns that it will penalize Computer Science tutorials that "work only in English."
Down under (Score:3)
"Collect all the shit you have left your dog"
The southern hemisphere never ceases to amaze me.
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I would say 'usted tienes' but, then again, mi Espanol es muy mierda.
Every human language leaves out information (Score:2)
when the source language admits to intentionally leaving out information
Every human language leaves out information. Different languages just leave out different amounts in different ways in different circumstances. This is why instead of relying on Google Translate, the author of an Hour of Code activity this year is going to have to hire a professional translator who can ask the author for the information that one language left out for use in a translation to another language.
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But "que han dejado tus perros" means "that have left your dogs" with a stylish order change (the real meaning is "that your dogs have left").......but as a matter of fact even people might fail at understanding that.
If you wanted to clarify that the dogs were left (not the caca), then you can add 'a' to indicate the object, as in "...que han dejado a tus perros."
(not sure about "caca", though).
Caca is correctly translated as 'shit' (though swear words vary depending on the country. We do this in English too: bloody and shag are not swear words in America, but are in England).
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Go To Hell Statement Considered Harmful [utexas.edu]: "In our definition of an algorithm we have stressed that the primitive actions should be executable, that they should be done. "Go to the other side of the square." is perfectly acceptable, "Go to hell.", however, is not an algorithm but a curse, because it cannot be done."
--Edsger W. Dijkstra [wikipedia.org], 11 May 1930 - 6 August 2002
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English is _the_ human language of coding. Get over the fact.
The phrase you are looking for is lingua franca [wikipedia.org] (which amusingly is not itself English).
Using Ubuntu? (Score:3)
English+spanish in the code. (Score:1)
The compiler accepted this language spanglish, so that it is not wrong in its parser, except invented an english-only-compiler.
Hispanic people is big for writing all code in english only, almost them do not understand english.
Is this from the same people... (Score:2)
... who brought us the available-in-30-languages childrens' book "The Little Mole Who Wanted to Know Who Pooped on His Head" [google.is]?
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On the other hand... (Score:4, Informative)
This is a pretty accurate description of how management views coders. Who's behind code.org again? Oh right... Better get the kids used to the idea of digital poop scooping so they can expect appropriate pay when they grow up.
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The kid can expect all he wants. The reality is that by the time he finishes his "education", there will be so many fungible shitty "coders" like him, that he must accept permanent minimum wages (and force the same thing on all properly educated college graduates), or get the fuck out of the way.
Or he could flip burgers at McDonalds' and feed the next generation of slaves.
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Yep, it's preparing the kids for a crap-tacular job dealing with crap-tastic management!
If they want more girls to go into programming... (Score:3)
I don't think that shit-gathering contests are the way to stir up that interest.
Really? (Score:1)
"Code.org warns that it will penalize Computer Science tutorials that 'work only in English.'"
Seriously, f*** you, code.org.
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Because coding isn't a job. It's a skill. You sound like the last of the keyboardists throwing up their hands going "But everyone will know how to type. Our jobs are doooooooomed.".
What was once hard is now easy and is now curriculum for kids. Just like Algebra and Calculus before it.
No. Learn English. (Score:2)
If you're eventually going to be working with me (that is, if I'm going to be "knowledge transferring" to your next-to-worthless ass so I can get one last bonus before they lay me off), learn English. Because I'm not going to be learning anything else.