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Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial

Posted by timothy on from the localization-is-important dept.

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."

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  1. Down under by pushing-robot · · Score: 2

    "Collect all the shit you have left your dog"

    The southern hemisphere never ceases to amaze me.

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    1. Re:Down under by phantomfive · · Score: 2

      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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  2. Using Ubuntu? by tomhath · · Score: 2

    Ubuntu's desktop color scheme looks like poop to me.

  3. On the other hand... by CODiNE · · Score: 3, 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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  4. If they want more girls to go into programming... by Nutria · · Score: 2

    I don't think that shit-gathering contests are the way to stir up that interest.

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