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Congrats to you and the young dev. Great inspirational story. Thanks for sharing.
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You may have created the next Dennis Ritchie ( or similar old-school computing sage ).
Well done and much respect to you for what you do :). -
@compSci same here pretty much, was sad I didn't have encouragement but realised that doesn't stop me learning now - never too late to learn :).
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@compSci : What's your distinction between programming and developing? Wondering the difference you're trying to point out here when the kid is solo coding.
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compSci9598y@SharinganUchiha I use the anaology that programming is like writing a novel with no real plan. Of course for all instances this isn't remotely true.
But for children when faced with a problem in life not just when developing to break the problem down and create the solution.
It's more of a life lesson than anything else. So in short developing is the process of creation and I suppose programming is the process you use to complete that creation. -
compSci9598y@SharinganUchiha I'm sorry if that doesn't make much sense, I didn't convey my point very well.
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@compSci I think if it like this -
programming is coding, the physical creation, developing is everything in the creation process: design, planning, coding, testing etc.
Is that somewhere near your thoughts about this?
So, in my spare time I run a little helper business that teaches children/teenagers how to program.
Theres a new kid that's been coming for around about a month, and I swear the kid is a programming deity.
He picked programming and more importantly developing remarkably quickly.
Long story short, I paid for him to go to a Hackathon in LA and he now has more business contacts than me.
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