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.
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.