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> "...a CS career and making good money..." Doing what? "CS career" is rather vague and "good money" isn't guaranteed. She could be writing web pages / web f
by ThrowawayR2 2y ago
> "...a CS career and making good money..."
Doing what? "CS career" is rather vague and "good money" isn't guaranteed. She could be writing web pages / web frontend (oversaturated), web backend (oversaturated), mobile or desktop applications (oversaturated), systems administration/IT (oversaturated) or be in some specialty like embedded systems/IoT or AI systems development. If the answer is "I don't care/whichever gets the most money", steer her away from a CS career entirely; that is a recipe for washing out after a few years.
[EDIT] If you want to go a bit further, give the child a Raspberry Pi 4, tell them to create a small web page with a simple backend (easily doable with today's frameworks and the plethora of tutorials online) and then ask them to reflect on whether that's what they want to be doing for several more decades. That's what 90%+ of programmers do.