Chapter 493 The babies are good, but mom is not
Just like last time, Director Liu stated his purpose straight out of the gate this time. He came for the teaching materials.
Lin Siqiao was very surprised to hear this.
In fact, it is no secret that the Ministry of Education has been busy with textbooks recently.
As early as the symposium in August, it was clearly stated that textbooks are very important and must be unified.
To this end, the Ministry of Education held a meeting on "General Textbook Compilation" in Beijing in early September.
It is said that the participants in this conference are all excellent teachers selected from all over the country, with a total number of more than 200 people. As soon as the meeting was over, these people were arranged to work on textbook adaptation at the Xiangshan Hotel in the suburbs.
It stands to reason that with so many elites coming this time and the previous textbooks as a framework, it should not be difficult to rewrite a new set. So why did they come to me?
Director Liu also gave his own explanation for this.
Elementary school, junior high school, and high school are indeed not difficult, but the difficult part is the textbooks for university.
They have submitted three versions so far, but the leaders were not very satisfied with any of them after reviewing them.
"The leader said that our previous versions of the textbooks were too old-fashioned. He hoped that they could be simplified and that more advanced things from around the world could be added to them so that students could learn more about the outside world and face up to their own shortcomings."
As he spoke, Director Liu took out a few textbooks from his bag.
Lin Siqiao took a closer look and realized that the other party was clearly well prepared this time. Aren’t economics, physics, and computer science exactly the ones she studied in Cambridge?
Director Liu felt somewhat embarrassed as his thoughts were seen through.
It's not that he wanted to pick on Lin Siqiao alone, but the country has not sent many students abroad in recent years.
Even if he was sent, his grades wouldn't be as impressive as Lin Siqiao's. It's not easy to get the first place in three subjects in Cambridge!
What's more, Lin Siqiao is the only one among these government-sponsored students who chose to minor in computer science and won the honorable gold medal in the International Collegiate Programming Competition.
If they don't come to her for advice, who else can they go to?
Who could be more qualified than her?
Thinking of this, Director Liu had no choice but to risk his reputation, and he said with gritted teeth.
"Assistant Lin, this is the fourth edition of our freshman computer textbook. Can you help me take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be revised?"
Lin Siqiao didn't even take the textbook, but took it directly.
As computers are a top priority for development in the next decade, the importance of textbooks is self-evident.
But with just a cursory glance, she found that there were quite a few problems.
Lin Siqiao finally understood why, for a long time in later generations, classrooms where computers were stored were equipped with thick curtains.
Everyone had to wear shoe covers during computer class and was very careful when operating the computer, for fear of accidentally damaging the computer. It turned out that all this was caused by the textbooks.
"Director Liu, computers are electronic products. Their disadvantage is that they are updated quickly, but the components inside them are not that easy to damage."
"It only takes one or two class hours to explain this. This and this can all be deleted."
Director Liu came here today with the intention of learning from others, so naturally he would listen to whatever Lin Siqiao said.
At this time, Lin Siqiao pointed out several problems with this version of the textbook.
The first is that the knowledge points are too dense.
The whole textbook gave Lin Siqiao the feeling that it was not a textbook, but more like a reference book.
Putting such a large number of knowledge points together is actually very unfriendly to students who are just starting to learn computers.
In fact, it is not impossible for you to splice them together, but there are too many professional computer terms, which requires you to restore its original meaning as much as possible during the translation process.
Unfortunately, the translators don’t know much about computers, just like this sentence.
"The robustness of the software is that the computer does not crash when there is an input error or a malfunction."
Lin Siqiao was dumbfounded when she saw this. She took a long time to react but couldn't understand the last sentence.
Until she looked through the relevant information brought by Director Liu.
It turns out that software refers to software, which is officially translated into "program system" in China, and robust is actually the direct translation of this word.
When you say you wrote a robust word, who can understand what you mean? If you don’t know, you might think that people from Kwalu Province are great.
If we replace the word "stable" here, wouldn't students be able to understand it immediately?
Director Liu's eyes lit up after hearing this, and then he told him the whole situation.
Currently, Tsinghua University is the only university in China that opened a computer department in 1958, and the textbooks used are translated versions bought from abroad in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
They adapted the text based on this translation.
Later, several plans were rejected by their leaders, so they urgently imported a batch of computer information from abroad.
The version that Lin Siqiao got was actually a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
In fact, the teachers in the adaptation group also discovered this problem, but they are neither professional translators nor computer experts.
Therefore, they have no better idea of how to edit the teaching materials so that students can better understand and accept them.
Director Liu had said this, so Lin Siqiao naturally understood what he meant.
However, Lin Siqiao had never done or was not good at adapting textbooks, so she would not try her hand at it.
Besides, she is now almost six months pregnant and has a lot of things to do in both ministries, so she really does not have any extra energy.
However, Lin Siqiao agreed to translate.
She also agreed that after the textbook is completed, she would provide some feedback and opinions from a student's perspective.
Having said that, after get off work, Lin Siqiao still found some textbooks from the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University and Peking University on the platform.
Although this cannot be compared with the textbooks of later generations, each era has its own characteristics. From the perspective of that era, this set of 1980s textbooks is almost perfect.
At this time, Lin Siqiao didn't care whether the chicken or the egg came first.
She took out her notebook and wrote down the contents of all the chapters. When she gets the latest version of the textbook, she plans to submit it based on this idea.
When Lu Jianchuan got home, he saw that the light in the study was still on, and then he realized that she had returned from Guangzhou.
"Why didn't you call me in advance when you came back so I could pick you up at the airport."
Hearing the helplessness in his tone, Lin Siqiao reached out and put her arms around his neck.
"I was wrong"
Lu Jianchuan kept his eyelids drooped and said nothing, thinking to himself that he had to hold on for at least 10 minutes this time, otherwise she would not learn her lesson next time.
"I'm back safely, right? The two babies are very well behaved. They didn't bother me once after I went out."
Lin Siqiao shook his neck, and seeing that he still didn't speak, she opened her mouth and bit his earlobe.
"Are you sure you don't want to ignore me?"
This is his sensitive area.
Once touched, he will be honest.
"Hiss——" Lu Jianchuan groaned.
"Still ignoring me?" Lin Siqiao silently counted to three in his heart.
Before one o'clock, he rubbed my forehead hard.
"The babies are good, but mom is not."
"No way! I was obviously very well behaved..."
Lin Siqiao protested quietly, but before she could finish her words, she froze in place.
"You...don't move yet."
Lin Siqiao grabbed his shirt, his tone was surprised and happy, and his eyes moved downward little by little, finally landing on his stomach.
When I looked up again, tears were already welling up in my eyes.
"Wife?" Lu Jianchuan's face tightened.
"Lu Jianchuan, the babies... the babies seem to be moving."
It’s not an illusion, it’s real!
The two little guys in her belly just moved. Their movements were very light, like two feathers gently brushing across her heart, making her feel numb and tingling.
Lin Siqiao burst into laughter, cupped his cheeks with both hands, and spoke in a spoiled tone.
"Who told you to say that? Look, the babies are all unhappy!"
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