Because you won't want to do everything from scratch yourself, you want to be able to look at what is being created by somebody else and understand what is inside of there, whether it works correctly and how you can build on it This is one of the few places where plagiarism is an OK thing.

因为你们不会想无论做什么事情,都由你们自己亲自上阵，你们希望有能力读懂,别人创造的语言,并了解其中的内涵，运转的正确性和如何在其基础之上继续发展,这是为数不多的,合理的作弊行为之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Next week, social thought and social behavior, mysteries; basically, a series of topics that don't fit anywhere in the course and really make psychologists scratch their heads.

下节课我们将会讲社会思想,社会行为，神话;,基本上这一连串的话题,在本课程中属于杂七杂八的,而且让心理学家百思不得其解的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

> So this tune made by one of our former students; but it doesn't have to be something written in Scratch, it doesn't have to be a game or animation it can simply be an incredibly, wonderfully way to spend time.

这段是由以前的学生制作的;,不一定非要用Scratch编写，也不一定必须是个游戏或动画,它只不过是用来打发时间的，一个好办法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And odds are if a week hence, two weeks hence just for fun you decide to reimplement your Scratch project -- or some tiny piece of it, it wouldn't be surprising -- or shouldn't be -- if you end of implementing the same game or animation or whatever using a completely different set of puzzle pieces Same deal we'd see here.

可能一周之后，两周之后，为了好玩,你决定重新实现你的Scrtch工程,或者其中一小部分，它将不会是令人惊讶的-,本来也不应该是--如果你运行相同的游戏,或者是动画，亦或是用完全不同的设置,来运行拼图游戏,我们将看到相同的处理。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You're not going to start for the rest of your life if you ever need to solve a problem with a computer from scratch, odds are you're going to reach for some off the shelf packages or libraries or tools that other people wrote so that people like us don't have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

如果你想用Scratch来解决问题,却使用其他人写的程序,或者利用现成的资料或工具,这样以来,我们的确可以避免做重复性的工作,但却永远学不会编程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

As an aside, if you ever just have one line of code that you want to execute, one puzzle piece in Scratch terminology, ; you actually don't need the curly braces; you only need the curly braces if you have two or more lines of code that you want to execute if that condition is true.

此外，如果你只有一行代码,需要执行，在Scratch，术语中叫做,一句代码，你就不需要使用花括号了;,如果那个条件成立，你有两行或更多行的代码时需要执行时,你就需要花括号。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选