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Computer Camps For The Summer

Posted by Cliff on from the think-warm dept.

An Anonymous Coward, with an outlook a few months away and many degrees warmer, asks: "My nephew (older teenager) is wanting to spend a summer in the U.S., preferably learning some college computer stuff. Anyone have any recommendations for a cool place to spend the summer? Any universities running such programs as he's pretty computer literate?"

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  1. National Computer Camps by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 2

    I volunteered as a counselor at one of the locations of National Computer Camps one summer a nubmer of years ago. The program was pretty good - the kids learn actual languages, from BASIC for the youngest through Pascal and C for the oldest (in fact, we had a few doing work in Assembly). Most students brought their own PCs. After instruction, there was plenty of Doom and games as well.

    The sessions are two weeks each and they have 5 locations in the U.S., mostly in the east (headed in Connecticut).

  2. Center for Talented Youth by frankie · · Score: 2

    We've got a pretty stiff admission test (you had to score high on the SAT in 7th or 8th grade), but the computer science course is fabulous. Hmm...they may have changed the syllabus recently. The original version is still being taught by the Boston CTY Alumni.