Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student interested in programming?

Re:Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student inte... by HiroshiSan on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @10:48PM (#18404211)

I'd say to try Harvard's CS50, and if he gets stuck to seek out a mentor or one of the online communities to help answer questions.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student inte... by t1lthesky on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @11:40PM (#18404362)

By online communities do you mean hacker news/reddit, places like that?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student inte... by otras on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:38AM (#18406984)

I second the advice on CS50. I took it when learning to program and found it very valuable.

There is a subreddit [0] for the class where the instructor (David Malan) posts frequently. Very helpful for asking questions and learning more!

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/cs50

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Re:Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student inte... by HiroshiSan on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:02AM (#18404428)

Sorry I should have been more specific, I believe the edx cs50 has a discord group and a slack group with active students taking the course.

Ideally he should find someone also interested and take it together, from my experience learning hard things is significantly easier when you have someone to talk to whose also struggling.

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