[python-nl] Python at Schools

[Floris van Manen]

Localization of programming languages is a bad idea.
If you have to learn a new language, switch context, never start  
translating.
You don't want to write in fortran-python either.

F


On Oct 2, 2009, at 19:23, Roger Erens wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 14:48, Bram Braakman <bram at legalsense.nl>  
> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> On a side note: I admire how (in the US) they know how to make it  
>> sort of
>> fun for the kids to learn programming (through games, game- 
>> programming or
>> things like LEGO Mindstorms/Robotics). I always felt that Dutch  
>> schools
>> lacked this kind of approach to teaching.
>> Cheers, Bram
>
> Maybe it would help if the keywords of the programming languages were
> localized. Dutch kids could then create a module in Dutch (e.g. in the
> programming language 'Slang') which a lexer/interpreter/compiler could
> translate into 'Python'. German kids might then re-use that
> Python-module by having it translated into their own localized
> Python-version 'Schlange'.
> I think it would also be far easier for a teacher to explain the
> programming concepts without English getting in their way.
>
> Roger
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