PY4E Book | Modern Filipino-English (Taglish) Translation

[engramar]

Hello Prof. Chuck (@csev),

Hope all is well. Is there a quick guide to start translating PY4E in Filipino? I think I can spare some weekend time for this project. I tried installing mactext on my mac but can't seem to get my head around it. =)

I cloned the repo in my local machine and can see the mkd's under book3 folder. Is there a way to just do the actual translation without doing the documentation tech stuff? =) I am happy to just work on an editable PDF if that is available.

Looking forward to contribute. Thanks in advance.

Regards, Engramar

[csev]

The instructions for doing a translation are here:

https://github.com/csev/py4e/blob/master/TRANSLATION.md

The best way to translate is to fork a copy of the git repo and translate the markdown and figures from there.

But if setting all that up is too difficult there is a Word version of the book with no table of contents and no index here:

http://do1.dr-chuck.com/pythonlearn/EN_us/pythonlearn.docx

Ad the translation documentation states, you can publish the resulting translation any way you like - even selling a printed version with the proper attribution like the other translations.

When you are done, I would like a copy of the resulting work to archive and point to on www.py4e.com - Word or PDF is fine.

Your work will need proper acknowledgements as per Creative Commons - that is easy and I am happy to help.

[engramar]

Thanks for responding Prof. Chuck (@csev). I think I will just use your Word doc =), a lot easier for me and will be handy to edit anywhere, anytime. Will share any progress here. Thanks again. Have a great week ahead!

[engramar]

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240602

Hi Prof. Chuck @csev,

Firstly, You may have noticed that I changed the title of issue #443 to "PY4E Book | Modern Filipino/English Translation". 😊Reason being is that just like English, the Filipino language has evolved over time and has an old-style flavor (sort of Shakespearean equivalent in English language). 😅

By focusing on modern Filipino/English translation of the PY4E book, we aim to make the material more relatable/comprehensible to contemporary Filipino speakers. In essence, our goal is to create a version of the PY4E book that resonates with today's Filipino-speaking community.

I started with the 1st paragraph. Let me know your thoughts and whether I am still on the right track. 😅

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240602.docx

Thanks and enjoy your week ahead.

[engramar]

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240610

Good evening Prof. Chuck @csev, Hope you had a great weekend. Slowly but surely (I hope😅). I managed to progress a bit. I tried using ChatGPT as well to double-check my Filipino grammar. Interestingly, it uses deeper "Tagalog" than me. 😊 As mentioned, I am trying my best to make it more modern Filipino/English or colloquially called Taglish (Tagalog-English). Attached is the version as of this writing.

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240610.docx

[csev]

I am glad to see some progress. Translation is a big task :)

[engramar]

Thanks Prof Chuck, @csev. I must agree that it is a massive task!😅However, only few have this honor of translating the most popular introductory python course around. Thanks again for allowing me to do it.

[engramar]

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240623

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240623.docx

2 pages down, 210 more to go! 😅I have to revisit the previous translations and ask ChatGPT to provide me a more modern version of them. Interestingly, it somehow came up with slightly better translation but I need to still tweak them. Gen AI is pretty cool stuff. I am glad I am doing the translation during LLM-era. It really helps. 😎

[engramar]

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240706

Python Para Sa Lahat v20240706.docx

Managed to get some time. Another couple of pages completed. 🙂