From: Chris Pine <cpine@...>
Date: 2004-03-01T02:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Learn to Program -- A Tutorial for the Future Programmer

On a German Translation:
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You can get the code which generates every page in the tutorial here:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?ShowTutorialCode=true

It's all just one gigantic program.  As far as translation is concerned, I
wouldn't know where to start.  In the games I have worked on, we separate
all of the text into a few files and just translate those.  Here, though,
the text is almost the whole program.

Also, because all of the code is live, I have to make changes all over every
time I update Ruby on my server.  I wouldn't be able to do the same in
German (though maybe my wife could; she is not a native speaker, but she is
fluent in German).

If you want, you may certainly take all of the code and maintain your own
version of it.  (All I ask is that you provide a clear link to the
original.)

You need Apache set up to allow you to execute *.rbx files.

The tutorial consists of five files:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/index.rbx
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/PoweredByRuby.png
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ruby.properties
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/SciTEGlobal.properties
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/tutorial.css


That's it!

So would anyone like to maintain a German site yourself?  I would, of
course, link to it from my front page.  Or, looking at my code, is there
something I could do to make translation easier?

Chris