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librastevelast Thursday at 4:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

Question: is it a good idea to introduce kids to coding in their mother tongue like this?


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zabzonktoday at 2:43 AM

i've always given the advice "program in english, comments, variables, function names, everything", and "always use a uk/us keyboard unless you absolutely have to enter localised strings, and even better get someone else to do that"

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throwA29Btoday at 3:39 AM

No. You want 'for' to be a looping construct with no other meanings.

Seeing code in my native language makes me laugh, I can't take it seriously.

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culitoday at 3:01 AM

As someone who's spoken English since 5, I'm perplexed by this question. I'm genuinely unfamiliar with any perceived downsides and I would love to hear more of your thoughts