rzc

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   by rzc 13y ago

   At the time it was mostly just fun for me, sounds like the situation is the same for him. I think it's a balance, you want to pursue your interests to the point where they show your ability, but also deal with enough of the BS required
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   by rzc 13y ago

   I had an engineering internship when I was 14. Definitely missed out on whatever kids my age were doing that summer, but I was too much of a nerd to even have wanted to do anything else. I think it worked out for the better, and I hope it d
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   by rzc 13y ago

   Yeah, web development is certainly in high demand, but I think the experience in other domains would make a better programmer overall.
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   by rzc 13y ago

   I would encourage her to try things other than web development. Make a desktop application, or a program in C, or do some performance coding on an embedded system, or write a webserver from scratch, or wrestle with writing a program with mu