Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
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Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#2All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program.
I'd happily be proven wrong.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#3All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program. I'd happily be proven wrong.
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Consider the ridiculous downside of someone being 12, posting their program to HN, and meeting with this as a first comment. How awful.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#4All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program. I'd happily be proven wrong.
Everything being in 1 commit seems perfectly normal for this situation.
He likely wrote the entire thing without Git (because he's the only one working on it), then decided to push it to BitBucket when he wanted to publish it.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#5All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program. I'd happily be proven wrong.
I'd bet he wrote it locally and then committed it.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#6All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program. I'd happily be proven wrong.
I disagree. I'd say having all of the work in 1 commit makes it more likely to have been created by a young programmer. What impresses me the most, and makes me skeptical, is the good code style. I know at least 3 12 year old programmers who might be able to do this, but none of them have this diligence for style.
The program is short enough and I was enough of a nerd at this age to be interested in doing something like this. I just focused on making poorly-designed computer games instead.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#7All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program. I'd happily be proven wrong.
So you're saying it's more likely that this 12-year old would have written this thing if he had split everything nicely into small readable commits?
That makes absolutely no sense
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#8All your work is in 1 commit and you only have 3 total commits in your repo. I'm skeptical that YOU wrote this program. I'd happily be proven wrong.
you'd be surprised how many personal projects have only one commit.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#9That's awesome. What resources did you use to learn Node and JS?
Just looked at your code. Kid. You're a badass. Keep this up, you'll go places.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#10Great that you start so early, I've did the same. For me it was a great way to gain confidence and build a skill which is very useful. I wouldn't be the same person now if I didn't program so early.
Seeing how things come to life that you've build with your own hands is a very empowering experience. Keep it up! :)