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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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  • 46
    You did a good deed sir, we need more people like this!
  • 18
    Congrats to you and the young dev. Great inspirational story. Thanks for sharing.
  • 12
    act.do
    {
    that.kid.give = cookies.all;
    }
  • 13
    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 :).
  • 4
    Congrats to you and him!
  • 2
    Thank you for the kind words!
  • 5
    That's great. I wish I had someone like you in my life when I was a kid.
  • 4
    @alybadawy I thought the same a year back that's why I started. :')
  • 3
    @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 :).
  • 2
    Yes, completely. What a good thing to be doing with yourself.
  • 2
    @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.
  • 3
    @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.
  • 2
    @SharinganUchiha I'm sorry if that doesn't make much sense, I didn't convey my point very well.
  • 3
    @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?
  • 4
    The force is strong in this one - i Can feel it 👌
  • 2
    Congratulations for your contribution to the dev space, sir!!
  • 2
    @bash-apprentice You nailed it. It's been a long day! Haha!
  • 2
    Maybe he is The One.
  • 1
    @compSci sir u rock!
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