The provided text is in English, and we ask you to translate the text to the Croatian language. Please bear in mind the following guidelines while translating: 1) We want a natural translation, a formal form. 2) Use the symbols like '#@%$-+_=^&!*' as-is. *Include* the special characters as suited when translating to Croatian. 3) Quantities like millions or billions should be translated to their equivalent in Croatian language 4) Note the input is all case-sensitive except for special placeholders and output is expected to be case-sensitive. 5) The output must have Croatian characters like Ž or č and the output must preserve the Croatian language characters. 6) The input contains punctuations and output is expected to have relevant punctuations for grammatical accuracy.

I don't know if that was necessary to demonstrate -- (Laughter) -- but my point is it's the sound of self-destruction.
Ne znam je li ovo bilo nužno demonstrirati -- (Smijeh) -- ali moja namjera je da je to zvuk samo-destrukcije.

Programming is how most procedures and processes get written down these days, and it's also a great way to engage students much more and to check they really understand.
Programiranje je način na koji se većina postupaka i procesa danas zapisuje, i to je također sjajan način da se uključi studente još više i da se provjeri da li stvarno razumiju.

And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was, generally, secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.

A kada je period kolonizacije završio, ono što ste na tom mjestu imali bili su, općenito, svjetovni diktatori, koji govore kako su oni država, ali nisu donijeli demokraciju u državu, već su uspostavili svoju vlastitu diktaturu.

