Second skill we want you to have at the end of this course is the ability to use a vocabulary of computational tools in order to be able to understand programs written by others.

我们想让你们在课程结束时,掌握的第二个技能,是有能力使用计算工具的语言,用来理解,别人编写的程序。

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Language of this source is a device, and in relation to other devices it's called a "function."

语言是一种工具，和其他工具一样有功能“

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Those same tools easily transfer to any other language.

这些同样的工具是很容易,在不同语言之间转换的。

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I think it's interesting to think in those terms about the relationship among devices.

我认为这些语言工具之间的关系,很耐人寻味。

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not that things are but what things are using the instrument of language?

不是指一般时候事情是怎样的，而是说,运用语言工具时事情是怎样的？

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