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Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial
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."
How about RTFA. This is Chile, why would school children in a South American country be expected to code in English?
Esdger Dijkstra codes in English.
Linus Torvalds codes in English.
Guido van Rossum codes in English.
Heck, even Miguel de Icaza codes in English.
English is _the_ human language of coding. Get over the fact.
If you can't code in English, you don't deserve coding.
And you know what's even worse than software systems of H-1B quality? Barely readable comments and documents written by a third-worlder who didn't bother to learn the basic rules of English.