9 Year old CS Genius? - Page 4

On February 11 2009 02:43 EsX_Raptor wrote:
//**********************************************************************************************************
// program designed to make you look like a kid that is better than every other mother's sons
// retarded. upon the release of this program, many children inferior to you will suffer as they
// will be compared to you. program is an aunto-download thus instant profit as mothers will
// be downloading it to force their children to look at it and see how successful you are and
// how retarded they are.
//***********************************************************************************************************

finger.put = line;
shake.erase = true;
end

On February 11 2009 06:56 pyrogenetix wrote:
lol these kinds of kids dont surprise me anymore. normally it's asian countries like korea china and japan that likes to encourage kids to be grossly educated in a single subject and then be totally useless in all other subjects and social life.

i remember was a chinese kid who was 11 and got into university to study physics and super string theory. after a week of not turning up at class the teachers started looking around for him. in the end they found him at home eating chips and watching cartoons on tv. when asked why he didnt go to class he said he didnt want to.

On February 11 2009 02:33 Ideas wrote:
what's a 9 yr old doing with an iPhone

On February 11 2009 09:46 Bill307 wrote:
If you ask me, autistic savants aside, the only thing that makes a child "prodigy" different is that the prodigy wasted less time during his or her childhood than an average child.

And since IQ is dependent on age for children, a "genius" child is simply one that wastes less of their time, say, watching TV, and instead spends that time learning.

Think about it: if, as a child, all your TV-watching hours were instead spent learning to program, or learning to write music, or learning some other skill, then you'd probably have become a child prodigy, too.

On February 11 2009 09:56 Warrior Madness wrote:


I disagree. There are many factors that separates a child prodigy from the rest of us chumps. IQ is one, the rage to master is one, and deliberate practice (with a supportive environment) is the other.

I mean even if a genius is just someone who "wastes less of their time" as you put it, the fire in them to singlemindedly pursue whatever their interested in is inborn. The desire NOT to waste time is something they're born with anyway. We can't choose to be passionate about something, and certainly not to the extent that prodigies are. Yeah, Bisu's multitasking, and Jaedong's mechanics, is just the result of 10 hours of daily arduous practice. Easy. >.>

On February 11 2009 11:28 Bill307 wrote:

These are just "facts" pulled out of your ass.

Edit: For example, "the fire in them to singlemindedly pursue whatever their interested in is inborn. The desire NOT to waste time is something they're born with anyway." I see no reason to believe this.

I see statements like that as merely an excuse for people who are either trying to justify the time they wasted as a child (which is unnecessary, 'cause we were all dumb when we were children anyway), or trying to justify their current laziness as being something they cannot change.


Edit 2: And by the way, people who believe their own poor performance is a result of uncontrollable factors such as genes are not only factually wrong, but also tend to have poor performance simply because they don't make any real, concerted effort to improve.

(Mentally disabled people excepted, of course.)

On February 11 2009 10:00 meRz wrote:
Wtf

I came into this thread hoping for some 9 year old Counter-Strike gosu.

On February 11 2009 14:35 TheYango wrote:
The title is misleading.

Programming/Software development != Computer Science

On February 11 2009 13:38 404.Nitrogen wrote:


join the club.