Re^2: How do I get my teenager interested in software development?

Hard programs to get into ??? Since when ?

I went in engineering because you can get in there with no restriction. Everyone can subscribe and everyone is accepted. Well here in Quebec. The filtering is done while studying, those who can't follow leave by themselve. But computer science and any engineering program are still the easiest science program to get into.

And it is not because he does not show interest now that he does not like it. I started programming when I was 20. Before that, to me a computer was equivalent to Word and Internet I didn't even know how to scan for viruses. He just have to try it to know.

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Re^3: How do I get my teenager interested in software development? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 24, 2006 at 20:45 UTC
Hard programs to get into ??? Since when ? Well, since the early 1990s. Things may have changed, as I did point out in my post. Like I said, you needed a 95%+ average to be accepted into Comp Eng back in 1991: my engineer friends were all griping about how they barely got in, or didn't get in, to Computer Engineering. I consider requiring over 95% as a overall average for admission to a program to be a "hard program to get into". Maybe you're so smart that you don't. :-)	[reply]

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Re^3: How do I get my teenager interested in software development?
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 24, 2006 at 20:45 UTC

Hard programs to get into ??? Since when ?

Well, since the early 1990s. Things may have changed, as I did point out in my post. Like I said, you needed a 95%+ average to be accepted into Comp Eng back in 1991: my engineer friends were all griping about how they barely got in, or didn't get in, to Computer Engineering.

I consider requiring over 95% as a overall average for admission to a program to be a "hard program to get into". Maybe you're so smart that you don't. :-)

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