CS principles? You want to scare him off? :) Does he play any of the new computer games? Lots of kids these days are picking up programming modding games. I can't believe the amount of 16 year olds just picking up C and 3DSMax/Maya just because they want to mod the Quake engine (it's open source). I imagine the RPG's are probably a bit easier to get into, I know Diablo and Warcraft have active mod scenes. Heck, installing and using Linux will get anyone familiar with scripting after a while. I think my first useful programming was done making bash scripts...
-- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 10:33:52 AM, you wrote: RC> I have a 13 year old nephew who is a genius (or at least in my mind ;). RC> He seems to be interested in picking up programming. (He borrowed one of RC> my Mastering CF MX books and is thumbing through it.) I'd _really_ like RC> to help him learn programming, although I'm across the country so I RC> can't sit with him and cover the basics. Does anyone know of a good RC> program/book/whatever that teaches basic CS principles? I don't care RC> about the language - hell even ASP would be fine - but I want something RC> that teaches things like data structures, flow, etc. The language is not RC> important. RC> Any recommendations? Remember I won't be there and unfortunately no one RC> else local to him is a programmer. (Although I'm moving there soon and I RC> may just wait till I can personaly tutor him.) RC> Oh, and it doesn't have to be web specific - although I am going to pick RC> him up a good HTML book. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
