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Re:DPRK Textbooks by perihelions on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:32PM (#28813934)
I think some of these aren't North Korean-authored, but international textbooks in unofficial translation. For example, Google matches code samples from "CTBooks1/ANSI_C++.pdf" to this textbook from 1999 (and the front-cover graphic is identical),

https://books.google.com/books/about/Object_oriented_Softwar...

I think the version they're translating is a UK print edition, because the currency unit in the code is "£".

But the series about Red Star OS [0] are very certainly DPRK-authored.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

The music textbooks are worth noticing (they're very obviously North Korean -- e.g. "Lesson 1. Song of Kim Il-sung"). It's all in Western notation. References both Western and Korean instruments. There's bow markings on the score of "Song of Kim Il-sung", so I infer that violins are at least somewhat common in secondary schools (or why else are they there?)

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Re:DPRK Textbooks by contingencies on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:47PM (#28814044)
I would assume they copy Chinese textbooks as it's the only border.

I wonder if, when discussing ANSI C++, they admit what ANSI means.

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Re:DPRK Textbooks by monocasa on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:11PM (#28814183)
They copy anything. They don't have a legal concept of copyright in North Korea, so why wouldn't they?

And their CS majors supposedly have monitored but uncensored access to general internet. I'm sure they know that the A in ANSI means American.

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Re:DPRK Textbooks by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:37PM (#28814328)
At least it covers UML. That'll set them back a few decades.
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Re:DPRK Textbooks by asdfge4drg on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:51PM (#28814405)
haha. someone introduce Agile to North Korea. They're not going anywhere now.
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Re:DPRK Textbooks by brian-armstrong on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:55PM (#28814088)
The 'A' is short for Juche
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Re:DPRK Textbooks by bluepizza on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:52PM (#28814075)
Yes. There is a huge difference between normal population and party or military members. The elites have access to education.
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Re:DPRK Textbooks by CodeGlitch on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:25AM (#28817275)
> I would assume they copy Chinese textbooks as it's the only border.

Could be from Hong Kong when they used sterling?

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Re:DPRK Textbooks by smhost on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:33PM (#28815521)
They share a border with Russia as well.
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