Toward the end of writing high-performance code, developers often write small benchmark programs to measure the relative performance of one approach against another.

开发人员在以编写高性能代码为目标的时候，常常会编写小的基准程序来度量一种方法相对于另一种方法的性能。

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Another common failing is that the authors forget what readers most want to do when learning a new language; namely, to write small working programs to familiarize themselves with the syntax.

第二个常见的问题，就是作者忘了读者在打算学一门新语言的时候，最想做的是什么；当然，无非就是要写几个小程序，借以熟悉语法。

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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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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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Programmers write small, focused programs to solve problems and generally recognize that lines of code are a cost, not an asset.

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