My 20 year old step-son has just finished his first year of Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. I am keen for him to get a job, less for the money (although he can definitely use that) and more for the life experience. He's not normally an outgoing type, so most jobs in the retail sector are a closed book to him. I have done some research into what various opportunities exist here in Toronto, and he has applied to a few jobs, but there don't seem to be a lot of suitable opportunities.

Failing a job, I'd like to set him a summer project, something that he'd work on over the summer, and at least have some experience on working on a project. It's possible that I would work on it with him on this project.

I'd love it if he picked up Perl, but so far his programming experience has been limited to C/C++. I gave him Learning Perl last year, and he wasn't that intrigued by it. PHP might work, and he did express some interest in looking at that language -- I figure if that works, I should be able to show him how the same thing is done in Perl -- and that might convert him.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions about the situation. Thanks.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to What I hope my step-son does this summer by talexb

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