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Polish Python: A Short Report from a Short Experiment

Author Jakub Swacha

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Jakub Swacha
  • Department of IT in Management, University of Szczecin, Poland

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Jakub Swacha. Polish Python: A Short Report from a Short Experiment. In First International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2020). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 81, pp. 25:1-25:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2020.25

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Using a programming language based on English can pose an obstacle for learning programming, especially at its early stage, for students who do not understand English. In this paper, however, we report on an experiment in which higher-education students who have some knowledge of both Python and English were asked to solve programming exercises in a Polish-language-based version of Python. The results of the survey performed after the experiment indicate that even among the students who both know English and learned the original Python language, there is a group of students who appreciate the advantages of the translated version.

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  • Social and professional topics → Computing education
  • Software and its engineering → General programming languages
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  • programming language education
  • programming language localization
  • programming language translation
  • programming language vocabulary

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