如果扎克伯格教你编程_BEC初级作文

如果扎克伯格教你编程

The video doesn't reveal the Partovi brothers' own story--a fascinating tale about how learning to code propelled them.

不过这段视频并没有讲到帕托维兄弟自己的故事。其实，他们也有一段靠学习编程获得成功的感人经历。

Born in Iran in 1972, the twin brothers lived there during their first 12 years. "It was a scary time under an Islamic totalitarian government at war with Iraq," says Hadi. The boys taught themselves to code on a Commodore 64 computer that their dad, a professor at Iran's leading technical university, brought home from Italy.

这对孪生兄弟1972年出生于伊朗，在那里一直成长到12岁。哈迪?帕托维回忆说：“生活在一个伊斯兰极权政府统治下，而且当时伊朗正与伊拉克开战，那真是一段恐惧的时光。”他们的父亲是伊朗一所顶级工科大学的教授。他从意大利购买了一台Commodore 64型电脑，两兄弟就在这台电脑上自学了编程。

Education was paramount in the Partovi family. When they got out of Iran in 1984, parents and twins slept in a bedroom in their grandparents' Tarrytown, New York home--saving money so the boys could attend private school. Geeks of equal measure (Hadi was valedictorian, Ali was salutatorian in high school), they worked their way through Harvard teaching computer science. Hadi and Tony Hsieh, on a Harvard Computer Programming team together, placed seventh in a global coding competition.