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Many years ago, in elementary/primary school I went to a computer camp when I was living in Belgium. We used Logo in French on Macs. I don't remember much, but
by mauvehaus 7y ago
Many years ago, in elementary/primary school I went to a computer camp when I was living in Belgium. We used Logo in French on Macs. I don't remember much, but the keyword for random was 'hazard'.
My experience was actually not bad; I didn't have any trouble associating the words with the abstract concepts involved in sending the turtle around the screen. I was doing fairly simplistic stuff though, I'll concede.
I wonder if instead of decoding words when programming "in the hardware", we form new associations for the (relatively) limited set of keywords languages provide? I mean, in most code, the words provided by the language make up maybe 5%-10% of the code. The names we give things seem much more important.
To your point of not being able to tune out inane heard content in my native language I agree. I'm not proficient enough in any others to have tried it, sadly.
- komali2 7y agoInteresting, I hadn't thought about"random" much, but hazard kinda makes sense even in English. Like "allow me to hazard a guess."
- umanwizard 7y agohasard is in fact the French word for random chance.
- jdminhbg 7y agoHazard in English comes from that, via the sense of gambling: https://www.etymonline.com/word/hazard https://www.etymonline.com/word/hazard
- mdup 7y agoProbably it was the false friend "hasard" which, in French, means: chance, randomness.
- mauvehaus 7y agoIt might well have been "hasard". It's been, uh, 20-something years? Thanks for the French lesson!