Having the right subject matter makes a difference. Baseball has a ton of data that they collect about each game. I wanted to learn R and took an online class

Having the right subject matter makes a difference. Baseball has a ton of data that they collect about each game. I wanted to learn R and took an online class where the professor was a Sabermetrics guru. Made the learning of R fun while also learning more about "inside baseball". I turned that into a small AI project on what players would be / should be traded as the season came to an end. (Teams that are out of the running will trade top players away to teams that are in the running to win their divisions. ) It was fun, because the subject is interesting. Trying to teach programming with a dry subject matter is very hard to do (Calculate area under a curve for your second programming assignment anyone?) Congrats on the son keeping up with it