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Technically, you shouldn't be using this site ;) > If you are under 13 years of age, you are not authorized to register to use the Site. But I applaud you for getting into programming this early.
When I was 12 I ignored this on pretty much any website I signed up for. Words do little to stop a determined 12 year old.
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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…
sine and cosine last year? Now I want to know what your parents are feeding you!!! ;)
All 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.
This comment violates HN's rules. Please assume good faith and don't attack people. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Consider the ridiculous downside of someone being 12, posting their program to HN, and meeting with this as a first comment. How awful.
IANAL 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 r…
Great job! One way to improve this code is to add comments. Use comments to describe what each function does and what the parameters are supposed to be. Then you can tell at a glance what the function does without having to analyze the code later on. Us old people tend to forget things.
Comments in a twelve-year-old's code? For whom? Seven-year-olds? (I'm serious.)
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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.
Kind of like when I was trying blacksmithing, the teacher makes you make your tools first.
I thought it might be useful for you to incrementally see how someone in industry would review or change this code, so here's a little code review via video: https://youtu.be/UkVOrcS--04
We very incrementally build up to the final code, which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/stevekrenzel/b490564bf1c7f98e232a6c8...
Hope you find it helpful!
Woah - 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://sha…
Liam, this is incredible ! I thought it might be useful for you to incrementally see how someone in industry would review or change this code, so here's a little code review via video: https://youtu.be/UkVOrcS--04 We very incrementally build up to the final code, which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/stevekrenzel/b490564bf1c7f98e232a6c8... Hope you find it helpful!
Thanks a lot!