我给孩子们讲了个故事，是现编的。

I told the kids a story, making it up as I went along.

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他用的安全软件是自己编的。

The security software he uses is home brew.

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这些篮子是用柳条编的。

The baskets are woven from strips of willow.

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But it is a very handy way of thinking about, not just how to program, but how to break problems down into nice sized chunks.

但是它确实是一种很方便的思考方式，不仅仅限于编程序,在将程序分解为小部分时也很有用。

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Given a fixed set of primitives, all right, a good programmer can program anything.

对，给出一对混乱的基本类型，对了，一个优秀的编程师可以编出任何程序来。

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It's much more interesting if you can actually build things that are interactive, that are animated, that play music and so forth and not just produce things on day 1 that outputs zeroes and ones like this.

如果你构建的东西是互动的,像动画，音乐播放等等，而不是编些像第一天那样,只是输出0和1的程序。

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