Congrats. > dimensional cellular automata in witch all possible rules are encoded into one byte as described here Small typo here - should be "which" instead of "witch"
Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.
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
#152Congratulations! 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.
Isn't Liam's project proof that you don't need any complicated JS tooling?
A simple `node index.js` can go really far.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
I'm 47. There were computer camps and clubs when I was a kid. They probably took a downturn, though, as computing went mainstream and turned into consumption of video games and, later, online socializing.
Maybe you were either too late, or too early, depending on perspective. :)
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#154This is awesome liam. im just over twice your age and am just now writing game of life simulators.... man, what was i doing at 12???
Trust me, there can be downsides to starting early. In my case, I virtually skipped having social interactions not on the internet until I was around 20 or so. Not everyone will have this kind of affliction, but you can't have it all - you gotta choose what's important to you. I hope this doesn't come off as being too negative, I mostly say this because I think you should try to appreciate what you did learn rather t…
With that said, it can also have the opposite effect. Success in online interactions at such an age gave me the confidence I needed to be successful in irl interactions.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#155Woah - very cool! I'm a part of Hack Club (https://hackclub.com), which is a nonprofit worldwide network of high school coding clubs. Hack Club has an amazing community of young developers - I actually lead a Hack Club at my high school, and I definitely recommend that you join their slack (https://hackclub.com/slack_invite) to connect with other young makers!
By the way, I'm a 17 year-old developer (https://shamdasani.org), but I probably started ~14. My main project is Enlight (https://enlight.nyc) to teach others to code by building projects. If you'd like to contribute, that would be awesome - feel free to shoot me an email :)
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
I wish I was 21. Or 31 for that matter.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#157Great work. I will give you a different piece of advice. Make sure to work out 360 out of 365 days in a year, without weights.
Ok I'll bite....where is this very specific advice coming from?
From a guy that was doing cool things with a computer at age 12 but instead of starting to workout at age 12, started at age 18. Any age is good to start working out but sooner is better.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#158Everything about it is optimism-inducing on a very deep level. The post itself, the reaction, the answers, the discussion.
Well, you either congratulate, or you get downvoted for not being nice. Your choice here on HN.
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
From all the amazing things Mr. Wolfram has done at such a young age almost makes him the Chuck Norris of science.
Catching the disease of cellular automata isn’t a good thing. Fredkin was also affected. This young person has many years to do useful things.
Unfortunately it was cancer from the radiation of atomic bomb tests that killed John von Neumann far too early, not his experiments with cellular automata.
https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
Re: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
#160IANAL and all that and it doesn't bother me, but the first thing I thought of was the age related ToS restrictions from the HBO Silicon Valley show.
From the HN "legal" page:
> If you are under 13 years of age, you are not authorized to register to use the Site.
https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
I assume no 12 year olds actually try to follow this boilerplate on the internet. Do sites that require a DOB to sign up reject those under 12?