Right, the first skill we want you to acquire, is we want you to be able to use the basic tools of computational thinking to write small scale programs.

好，我想让你们掌握的第一个技能就是，希望你们能使用,计算思维的基本工具,来编写小规模的程序。

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And that's so you can write small pieces of code.

这就是你可以编写短小的代码。

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We know that the Mycenaeans, or at least some small number of them could write, because we have the Linear B script, which we can read. There is no clue that there is such a thing as writing in the Homeric poems.

我们知道迈锡尼人中,至少小部分,是会写作的,因为我们找到了B类线形文字的遗稿,我们能够解读,但在荷马史诗中,却并没有任何线索表明写作这一点

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We don't expect everybody to be a course six major, contrary to popular opinion, so for those are you not in that category, the second thing we want to do is we want to help students who don't plan to major in course six to feel justifiably confident in their ability to write and read small pieces of code.

和大众意见正相反，我们不希望所有人都变成course，six的主修学生，所以对于那些不在第一梯队里的人来说，我们想做的第二件事情就是,希望帮助还不想,主修这门课的人,都能获得在自己能力范围内,读写小编码的自信。

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