Programming Resources for Non-English Speakers

Question

I teach a course in basic web programming at a public university. I often have students who are working hard to pick up English at the same time that they are taking my course. In many cases I have thought that I would like to have additional course materials in a variety of languages to keep some of the technical hurdles from being compounded with linguistic ones.

Can anyone recommend a "stackoverflow" whose primary language base is Japanese, Chinese, Polish, or Spanish? Or similarly, a site in any of the listed languages that targets web development?

Edit: One thing I ask is that recommendations be based on use of the site and so familiarity with the language or reasonable knowledge of the sites reputation.

As one responder mentioned, students can google whatever question they have in their native language. While this can be a great tactic it doesn't always point to quality information.

Thanks!

Answer 1

http://cnprog.com/ is a site you might want to check out. It's a Chinese clone of StackOverflow.

Edit: I found some more. http://www.askdev.ru/ and http://throwcatch.me/ are Russian versions of StackOverflow. http://codekicker.de/ is in German and http://www.salonit.pl/ is Polish.

Answer 2

Suggest that the students type their doubts, or keywords of subjects, into Google or other search engine, in their native languages.

That's how I find material in Portuguese at least. I'm Brazilian.

In the bigger language groups in the class, a few pioneers are bound to give the rest the links.

Answer 3

It's not a generic Q&A site like Stack Overflow, but as a resource, the language's documentation has to count, right? The PHP docs are available in English, Bulgarian, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian and Turkish, plus they have archives of other languages which aren't listed as "active" any more, so they're probably well out-of-date but might still be helpful.

Answer 4

JavaHispano.org for Spanish resources.