[Python-ideas] Non-English names in the turtle module.

Prof. Dr. L. Humbert humbert at uni-wuppertal.de
Fri Sep 4 14:19:19 CEST 2015


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On 04.09.2015 13:34, Ludovic Gasc wrote:
> I'm agree with Matthias: IT world is mostly English based. It's "sad"
> for non native English speakers like me because you must learn 
> English before to work in IT. However, the positive side effect is
> that we can speak together in the common language.

This argument does not fit for students at K4-level so programming4all
will not work. When constructing Ponto.py, (remote control for
OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice via Python) we decided to write PontoE.py
to enable students with English to use it, but
also PontoD.py to use those classes, which are German-based - because of
the bavarian textbooks for Informatik at the age of 11, which use German
identifiers for classes, attributes and methods.

You may take a look at
to get a glimpse, how we dealt in automating the process to get the
	http://www.ham.nw.schule.de/pub/bscw.cgi/100606
The
	README.txt
points out how the process it managed.

Our actual approach without »internationalisierung« for Python3:
	http://www.ham.nw.schule.de/pub/bscw.cgi/2131956


	TNX
	Ludger
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