Computing courses in French, Spanish and Japanese

MitsuruTech has three computing courses of its own for students of 16 to 18: one in French, one in Spanish and one in Japanese. Each was written in its own language, not translated from English or from each other. They are free.

What they are and who they are for

Each course has over a hundred short lessons in chapters. A lesson is interactive: you read a little, then try something, with code you can run on the page, quizzes, puzzles and tasks that are checked by hidden tests. The words are plain and the sentences short, for students who do not find reading or maths easy.

Everything a student reads is in the course’s language, including the comments in the code. The names inside the code follow one rule per language: French lessons use French names without accents, and Spanish and Japanese lessons use English names, as most professional code does, with a note in the first lessons saying why.

Trying them, and getting the whole course

Anybody can preview a course with no account, from Resources: /resources/course/fr, /resources/course/es or /resources/course/ja. Each page lists the chapters. The Resources page itself opens on a course: in French, Spanish or Japanese it is the course in that language, and in English it is the T Level Digital preview. Open a lesson to read its first page and try its first activities. Your answers are marked there and are not kept, and the right answers are never sent to the page.

The rest of the lesson, the tasks and the final check are in the full course. A college gets all of it in the Library, copies the lessons into its modules and teaches them like any other lesson, with marking and hand-ins. A personal account opens the Library and presses Add to my lessons, as for any Library lesson.

What is not there

The courses follow no official curriculum, name none and do not claim to cover or match one. They have no labs, no terminal commands and no videos. Japanese has no crosswords, because they need plain letters.

The courses were written by AI agents acting as native teachers, and have not yet been read by human teachers who speak the language. Read a lesson before you set it, as you would any lesson you did not write.

Questions people ask

Do they cost anything?
No. The courses are free, for colleges and for personal accounts. A college account has its own pricing, free for the first year; see What it costs, and how the free year works.
Are they a translation of the English lessons?
No. Each course was written from the start in its own language, with the words, examples, money and units of students in that country.
Do they prepare students for a particular exam?
They are not tied to any exam or official course, and we do not say they match one. Check the content against what you teach.
Can I see the whole course without an account?
No, only the preview: the chapters and the first page of each lesson. The whole course needs a college account or a personal account.