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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
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Subject: Re: Titles
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 22:03:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 22:03:07 1986
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In article <499@tekig5.UUCP>, abeaver@tekig5.UUCP (Annadiana Beaver) writes:
>    Sorry, Harry, I have to agree with Curt.  If the kid is like my son,
>    who has just started High School.  He spent part of his 8th grade
>    year teaching his programming teacher some new tricks. 
>    [....]
>    No, he could not come close to the level of a Professor who has been
>    teaching for several years, but just wait 'til he finishes high school...
>    

If you make sure he learns some mathematics and some logic
in between programming, then he'll be equipped to start learning
some computer science.
One of the major points of this discussion that Harry Snyder and
I both have made is that programming skills alone aren't enough to
make a modern computer scientist. See the discussion in net.cse.
You seem to be suggesting that they are, otherwise you'd be
worried that he was programming to the exclusion of developing
his other talents, which will become more useful to him later as
he matures in his career.

Peter Ladkin