Today I met Gabriel, a 16 year old guy in our little lab.. He is still at school, but he was working on some project using Ontologies (these are highly abstract models containing wisdom, that is used by computer software, so it can understand the real world).
As we programmers are passionate about programming, our first question is very often this one: "What programming language do you work with?". So he was working with Java, but mentioned that he also loved Groovy (just like me), because of it's elegance and he also knew about Rails and Grails. It turned out that his real love was C++ because his true passion was game programming... GAME PROGRAMMING!!! Game programming is maybe the most challenging area of all software development! It has everything - mathematics, graphics, artificial intelligence, networking...
So we continued chatting about some C++ IDEs for Linux and he knew and had used three popular IDEs. And he also knew about source control... And all the time he was talking passionate about our craft.. In perfect high-level English. Man, what amazing knowledge with 16!
The best thing was that he had started programming only 3 years ago.. What a quick progress! I could only admire Gabriel and imagine him working on some crazy AI stuff at Google after 5 more years. Keep on pumping Gabriel...
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hahahaha
ReplyDeleteTake him to some football Rusi ;)
Yuri