[TheAnonymouse]

Hello, my name is Anonymouse, and I am fascinated with computer programming. I've been to other forums before and I know the rules. I'm 13, and interested in starting a new company, OS development, game programming like any other teenager, and Linux based operating systems. I'm not a big fan of Windows, and I believe the future is in Linux, and I program in C, C++, Assembly, Java, and eventually want to learn Python. Currently I'm working on a simple DOS, a maze game in Java using Slick, and a huge text based C++ game. Thank you, and I hope to meet some cool members.

[jon.kiparsky]

That's quite a pile of work you've done already. I'm looking forward to seeing some of it, and some of what you bring to the forums.

I'm working my way through the MIT OpenCourseWare python course, and there's a lot of good material there, when you decide you want to dig into python. To be honest, it's not so much a python course as a course in computing that happens to be taught using python, but if you go through it and do all the assignments, you'll end up learning a lot of python.
I also suggest that you get together a small crew of people who you like to work with and work the class together, doing the lectures and the readings and assignments on your own and getting together once a week to compare notes. That's what I'm doing, with an interesting group of people (including one of my old CS profs) and it's turning out to be quite effective.

[TheAnonymouse]

jon.kiparsky, on 13 July 2012 - 08:05 PM, said:

That's quite a pile of work you've done already. I'm looking forward to seeing some of it, and some of what you bring to the forums.

I'm working my way through the MIT OpenCourseWare python course, and there's a lot of good material there, when you decide you want to dig into python. To be honest, it's not so much a python course as a course in computing that happens to be taught using python, but if you go through it and do all the assignments, you'll end up learning a lot of python.
I also suggest that you get together a small crew of people who you like to work with and work the class together, doing the lectures and the readings and assignments on your own and getting together once a week to compare notes. That's what I'm doing, with an interesting group of people (including one of my old CS profs) and it's turning out to be quite effective.

Those are some great ideas! I have been trying to gather some people in my grade but my other friend brainwashes them into web development so I'm pretty much the only real computer programmer in my school. Speaking of MIT, I would like to go there, it seems like a great college.

[jon.kiparsky]

It is, from what I can see, but you can learn a lot anywhere you go. It's you doing the learning, not the professors, so you're the one who needs to be smart. A smart school helps, but you're more important than the school.

[k3y]

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Those are some great ideas! I have been trying to gather some people in my grade but my other friend brainwashes them into web development so I'm pretty much the only real computer programmer in my school. Speaking of MIT, I would like to go there, it seems like a great college.

MIT is the harvard of tech. schools and @ these prices it should be good. Experience matters more then degrees in the comp. science field (althouh degrees def. help). Schools essentially are buisnesses and dont care about students (its all about $$ (isnt everything)). Join a dev team for a linux dist. that would be a good step in order to get 'field experience'. Welcome 2 DIC