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If anyone here learned to program before learning english (I assume if you're posting here, you understand english now), I'd be really interested to hear about
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
If anyone here learned to program before learning english (I assume if you're posting here, you understand english now), I'd be really interested to hear about your experiences! I've often wondered about how much more difficult it must be!
- iLemming 5y agoYou can ask any non-native English speaker. And then someone who grow up speaking English. The answers would be un-shockingly the same - programming languages [relatively] aren't that hard. English - is fucking insoluble. Beginner programmers tend to focus on programming languages. Programming is for humans. Focus on the human language!
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWell, I just think for me, it would have been a lot harder to get started if key words like ‘if’, ‘while’, ‘int’ etc were arbitrary gobbledygook instead of terms I already knew. I guess that’s wrong?
- kgeist 5y agoIt wasn't that difficult, you kind of learn English along the way. However, since you do not listen/talk, you don't know how words are actually pronounced. So you just guess, and it's often wrong. Like I once thought "value" is pronounced "vuhloo" (stress on 2nd syllable). Sadly there's still many engineers in the country (including seniors) who never bothered learning English properly, so they mispronounce everything all the time. They know what all the words mean, but they don't know how they're pronounced, or how to use them in a sentence.