Luca wrote:
[snippety]
Maybe you are right, but being italian myself i can remember when i was
a middle schooler (no computer before that) and the hours spent on my
MSX figuring out how the thing worked. I learned all the commands as
"brandnames" without really understanding them. I had _no_ idea that
"if" meant... if, or that "print" meant to print. I had zero knowledge
of english and for this reason most of these commands were meaningless
to me, i didn't even suspect they had a meaning in an existing language,
i just thought that was the way computers talked.
[more snippety]
Perhaps the lesson to learn from this is that as *you* teach programming
to non-english speakers you take the time to say "'if' means 'se',
'print' means 'stampa'", etc. I suspect your early years would have
been much easier with those bits of knowledge. :)
~Ethan~
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