If you want to get some input from the user, my God I don't want to have to program it to low level zero and 1 just to get keys from the keyboard; please let there have been someone who does that for me and indeed there are an increasingly sophisticated options that you can pull off the shelf.

如果你想获得一些用户的输入数据，我的上帝,我可不希望在键盘上敲入0，1的低水平方式来编程;,希望有个人能帮我做这件事吧,但是现有的选择,也变得日益复杂了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The pieces that we pulled off the shelf here were ultimately reduced to things like 4 loops and what we'll call functions and what we'll call abstraction; and all these fundamentals that at first glance might have some fairly RK and jargon associated with them.

我们可以把现有的课程,分为四大领域,以及应用型课程和抽象理论课程,乍一看，所有这些基础课程,都可能会和RK及与之相关的术语联系在一起。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Just so you know." Unbeknownst to the teachers, the actual test which was given to those students was a regular off-the-shelf IQ test.

只有你们知道就好“老师们不知道的是，对学生进行的测试,只是普通的现成的智商测试。

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Should it be customized, or in other words, made specific for the particular audience or can we create something that is an off-the-shelf product that people can use in many different environments?

应该为特定的受众，量身设计教育过程,还是制造,一种现成的产品,以供人们,在多种不同环境中使用？

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You're not going to start for the rest of your life if you ever need to solve a problem with a computer from scratch, odds are you're going to reach for some off the shelf packages or libraries or tools that other people wrote so that people like us don't have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

如果你想用Scratch来解决问题,却使用其他人写的程序,或者利用现成的资料或工具,这样以来,我们的确可以避免做重复性的工作,但却永远学不会编程。

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