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Looks like the Google Summer of Code application deadline already passed for 2008. That kind of stuff might be a bit out of reach for a first year programmer anyway.

At about the same point in my education my father helped me get an internship in the QA department of a company doing software development. It wasn't coding but it gave me a chance to see what life would be like as a programmer. Maybe you can find something like that for him.

-sam

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by talexb (Chancellor) on May 16, 2008 at 03:58 UTC

    Nice suggestion. He did do some QA work about 18 months ago at my place of work, and he quite enjoyed it. He has enough brainpower to do programming, with some training, so, for now, I've set him up with some PHP training materials. It's not my first choice for languages, but if he can get experience with that, he'll have a running start at work in a few months time. Many of the jobs that he looked at wanted PHP. Sigh.

    I wish it were Perl, but he'll have time to learn Perl later. In any case, I think he needs more exposure to the Linux shell before he's ready for Perl.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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