Code-170k-Shona: 176,999 Programming Conversations Translated to Shona

Code-170k-shona is a dataset containing 176,999 programming conversations, originally sourced from glaiveai/glaive-code-assistant-v2 and translated into Shona. It was created by michsethowusu and last updated on October 30, 2025. The dataset aims to make coding education accessible to Shona speakers through multi-turn dialogues.

Use Cases

• Training or fine-tuning code assistant models for Shona speakers based on the translated programming conversations.
• Developing educational resources for teaching programming concepts in Shona based on the multi-turn dialogues.
• Researching cross-lingual transfer for code generation tasks based on the dataset's translation from an English source.
• Analyzing conversational patterns in programming instruction based on the multi-turn dialogue structure.

Strengths

• Contains 176,999 high-quality programming conversations.
• Focuses on a specific language (Shona) to democratize coding education.
• Covers diverse programming topics like algorithms and data structures as mentioned in the description.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known, but other metadata like file formats, license, and sample data is unavailable.
• Data may reflect translation or source bias inherent to the original English-language dataset.

Provenance

Source

Originally sourced from glaiveai/glaive-code-assistant-v2 on Hugging Face.

Collection Method

Translated into the Shona language.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-30 09:08:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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