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Ask HN: How to help a 12 year kid with a passion for programming?

2 pointsby yedhukrishnanalmost 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve a cousing who is very much interested in programming. He started with C++ and now moved into Python.<p>But there are some problems. Here is an example: He knows he can use pointers to get the memory address location of a variable. But when it returns something like 0x0123, he doesn&#x27;t know about hexadecimal numbers!<p>He&#x27;s currently in his 6th form, but his interest in programming is far beyond the kids his age. I would like to get suggestions to lead him in the right way. Any ideas?

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frozenportalmost 10 years ago
I would have benifited from expertise in OpenGL. Answer questions, keep them culturally involved - which in many cases might mean giving a T-shirt.
c-rackalmost 10 years ago
Buy him a copy of Donald Knuth&#x27;s &quot;The Art of Computer Programming&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Art_of_Computer_Programming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...</a>