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Honestly, if the lad's driven and 'wants to make side money programming', he should be curious enough to ask this question. I find it weird that people are sugg
by nnain 12y ago
Honestly, if the lad's driven and 'wants to make side money programming', he should be curious enough to ask this question. I find it weird that people are suggesting SQL or Swift or Python, without even knowing what he's like. Maybe he likes microcontrollers. Who knows!
That you can mentor him is great but programming needs an innate interest. You can't really do his homework.
- Vivtek 12y agoHonestly, I see him in management pretty soon. He's amazingly good with people. He's not yet good with people he doesn't know - it costs me nothing to ask for good platform recommendations on a site I've frequented for years, whereas for him, posting this question here would be a real hurdle. He'll grow out of that pretty soon; the trendline is pretty obvious at this point. In the meantime, I've got some interesting things to get him started on.