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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

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Post by _hardwaregeek »

samstave wrote: post #116
liamilan wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a ton! Tell your son that it took me a while, and a lot of work, but it feels great to finish something (there are a lot of projects that I don't finish...). I began learning using Scratch a long time ago. They even featured me last year (the project was a solar system in which I used sine and cosine to calculate the rotation of the planets). I then used blocklike.js to move to JS. I watch a lot of YouTube vid…

Startup Idea: Start a slack/discord group for aspiring students between the ages of [pick your age range, say (8-18)] and start a mentoring/support group with these like-minds... You'll learn, build relationships and some of you will go off and found companies together.

I've considered building a "coding buddies" site. Something that's been lacking about the whole Codecademy/Hacker Rank/etc sites is the lack of intrinsic motivation. An actual person with whom you can work could potentially provide that.

Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

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samstave wrote: post #116
liamilan wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a ton! Tell your son that it took me a while, and a lot of work, but it feels great to finish something (there are a lot of projects that I don't finish...). I began learning using Scratch a long time ago. They even featured me last year (the project was a solar system in which I used sine and cosine to calculate the rotation of the planets). I then used blocklike.js to move to JS. I watch a lot of YouTube vid…

Startup Idea: Start a slack/discord group for aspiring students between the ages of [pick your age range, say (8-18)] and start a mentoring/support group with these like-minds... You'll learn, build relationships and some of you will go off and found companies together.

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Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

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Post by keithnz »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #18

Far better than I could do at that age! I think the furthest I was getting at that time was building out really terrible looking web pages in Notepad and making awful little animations in BASIC and Turing (learning lang). Keep it up!

I was on my Atari 800XL making games at that age. I started hitting problems that I thought should be easy. Like, I wanted to draw circles. But the library was just pixels and lines ( when I got to assembly programming, suddenly lines became a problem too ). There was no googling the answers, but luckily I could go "Daaaad..", who was a physicist, and he happily introduced me to trig and I eventually learned to draw circles....slow drawing circles, but still, circles.

Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

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Post by jakecopp »

samstave wrote: post #116
liamilan wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a ton! Tell your son that it took me a while, and a lot of work, but it feels great to finish something (there are a lot of projects that I don't finish...). I began learning using Scratch a long time ago. They even featured me last year (the project was a solar system in which I used sine and cosine to calculate the rotation of the planets). I then used blocklike.js to move to JS. I watch a lot of YouTube vid…

Startup Idea: Start a slack/discord group for aspiring students between the ages of [pick your age range, say (8-18)] and start a mentoring/support group with these like-minds... You'll learn, build relationships and some of you will go off and found companies together.

I'm 21 but I wish something like this existed when I was younger!

Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

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Post by rosege »

onion2k wrote: post #67
jrumbut wrote: post #25

I feel bad for all the other 12 year olds whose parents just saw this :)

It's great to be writing code at 12 if you want to write code, and clearly this kid has a talent for it, but that doesn't detract from what all the other 12 year olds are doing. So long as they're happy and safe to do what they want to do it's all good. Growing up is not a competition. Also, while it may seem great to learn early, I've worked with people who didn't write a line of code until they were in their 50s an…

What about those of us in the 3rd group - started late and have to work hard at it!

Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

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Post by flavio81 »

sramam wrote: post #89

Congratulations! I showed your project to my 12 year old son who has just started to learn programming (in JS no less!) and his jaw dropped. In addition to being a programmer, you are now a role-model. Really well done.

>I showed your project to my 12 year old son who has just started to learn programming (in JS no less!)

It would be much better if he would start with Scratch, Processing, Smalltalk, or even Python.

On JS he'll have to lose time coping with complicated build tools, horrible package system, async etc.

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