turns out i was posting in an online forum and not writing a term paper so i'm not too worried about spelling, but hey if u have time to waste to proofread slashdot posts go ahead
ya some kids program but its few and far between to find kids who program, the problem is public schools look down on it because they are run by over controlling systems admins - at least that was my experience in hs. im 19 and there were probably 15 kids in my school of 330 could program html and maybe 2 others besides myself could write a cmd line c++ app, the prob was the sys admin was runnign winME still and was paranoid of any kid who knew how to resize the screen resolution.
myself i have been programming since 8th grade ~6yrs ago (the first yr my family got internet access), since then ive learned how to program webpages w/ html, javascript, php, asp and use mysql db. also i know c/c++ some opengl some java (not to mention video/photo editing)
i see some people remarking sarcastically to other's teens lists of programming languages they know, this pisses me off because they probably do know the languages they listed, just for proof go to http://www.yes.mtu.edu/ or http://honors.mtu.edu/ I built both of those sites from the ground up hand coding everything and yes i'm 19 yrs old. I just started working on a mechanical engineering degree but when i was 17 i also worked on a research project at MichiganTech writing opengl C code for a DOD rsch project.
kids do program still but the negative public image of a CS geek hurts the field and more importantly poor teaching and administrating of coding/computer classes and computer networks at schools are the real problem
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turns out i was posting in an online forum and not writing a term paper so i'm not too worried about spelling, but hey if u have time to waste to proofread slashdot posts go ahead
ya some kids program but its few and far between to find kids who program, the problem is public schools look down on it because they are run by over controlling systems admins - at least that was my experience in hs. im 19 and there were probably 15 kids in my school of 330 could program html and maybe 2 others besides myself could write a cmd line c++ app, the prob was the sys admin was runnign winME still and was paranoid of any kid who knew how to resize the screen resolution. myself i have been programming since 8th grade ~6yrs ago (the first yr my family got internet access), since then ive learned how to program webpages w/ html, javascript, php, asp and use mysql db. also i know c/c++ some opengl some java (not to mention video/photo editing) i see some people remarking sarcastically to other's teens lists of programming languages they know, this pisses me off because they probably do know the languages they listed, just for proof go to http://www.yes.mtu.edu/ or http://honors.mtu.edu/ I built both of those sites from the ground up hand coding everything and yes i'm 19 yrs old. I just started working on a mechanical engineering degree but when i was 17 i also worked on a research project at MichiganTech writing opengl C code for a DOD rsch project. kids do program still but the negative public image of a CS geek hurts the field and more importantly poor teaching and administrating of coding/computer classes and computer networks at schools are the real problem