How do I make math and code exciting to an 8 year old kid so he maybe become a STEM autist?

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How do I make math and code exciting to an 8 year old kid so he maybe become a STEM autist?

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Tell your 8 year old to grow hormones so he can think straight because if he isn't, he isn't going to think straight. These are 8 year olds user, you can't simply expect them to do shit you want, you can't trick them either. They have to have an intrinsic interest in the subject at hand. For me, when I was young, I used to like rocks because of the way they felt. Now I didn't go that far and went into books to read about the rocks that felt good, but I got really into those rocks. Find something nice and fuzzy about math and computers that doesn't make someone's mind hurt and they'll glide along on the subject until their dick sticks.

like computer graphics or making autistic games?

Honestly this Also retro systems are great. Either something that forces you to program to enjoy the system like something running basic or something that's just slow and forces kids to find ways to use it despite its limitations. You give your kid a 8 yr old a shitty thinkpad pre x60 help them install linux on it and show them all they can do with it.

The desire to tinker is something you're born with, and you can only direct it into certain fields at best. If the kid wasn't an engineer to start with, he will never be (a decent) one. If he is of that mindset, it's best to start with reverse engineering. Teach him how to take things apart deliberately, whether mechanical, electronic, digital, etc. and then teach him how to modify them in novel ways. It should be all downhill from there.

Monkey see, monkey do. If the kid sees his parents doing something he'll try to learn it. I really wouldn't teach a 8 year old coding though, he lacks the bare basics and will probably learn it wrong then have to spend time later learning it right. If you insist on it, do some easy Project Euler problems with him instead, then he'll learn logical thinking which is a much more useful skill he can use later for anything, programming included.
And don't try to force anything because 1) that's a dick move 2) you'll only make the kid really hate it.
First pic makes no sense. The ones who shoehorned politics into vidya and ultimately made Holla Forums into what it is were the left. You can't just swap sprites.

Good advice. I've opened lots of things as a kid, sometimes they even worked when put back together.

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here is context
I was poor as fuck but my parents took out loans while going to college and set me up with Math Blaster and Zug the Megasaurus, I fucking love making the rockets take off by doing math

I also had a lot of free time and since my parents had bought me a poster with the multiplication tables I decided to memorize them cuz I didn't have much else to do

also this was before i was 8
my parents also had an old word processor you could type in commands to make a guy run across the screen and I'm pretty sure I got great pattern recognition from that

They're seizing the memes.

Jesus, I played that 30 years ago and I still instantly recognize screenshots. I can't even remember what floor I parked on today.

How many times are you going to keep making the same thread and not make your 'amazing idea' of a game, faggot?

still need to learn algebra II, trigo, precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, calculus II, physics before making a single 2D mario in SDL.

Try to get them into CS50 and reward him for the progress they make, its a free structured MOOC thats hosted on edx for beginner programmers. Has decent book recommendations too (non dry, non reference type books, and unless the kid is a complete autist who already has a taste for programming I don't think he or she would enjoy something like SICP.)
It's not so difficult that an 8 year old can't complete it without a little help, and at the same time, it doesn't hold your hand every step of the way. Anyway it shouldn't take more than maybe 3 months to complete it, and once they do they'll be able to better explore different paths in computer science with little guidance and direction.

Bullshit, kids are pretty much a blank slate, and save for severe mental deficits they're pretty much capable of becoming highly competent in anything by the time they reach their teen's.

i want to kill myself

just learn java bro.
;)

I forgot to mention that pic related's dad is a programmer, and math and science tutor. So he had someone to nurture the interest in him from early on which i think is what is most important. Not all, but a lot of prodigies have this in common nowadays. Their parents are already somewhat successful, but more important than this is that they get direction and support from a very young age and not just thrown in front of the tv/vidya/computer to fend for themselves.


Can you make a 2d mario game with a game engine? If not you're only bullshitting yourself if you decide to start only after having learned basic calculus and physics. In this current year, with all the tools we have to abstract away the tedium, strict bottom up learning is a waste of time if you actually want to produce something.

i did learn the basics, for uni work

kys pajeet

now build something
anything ;) even if it seems beyond your skill level


end your life my man

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You should just find a book on the internet and learn. It isn't difficult.

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I just don't have the motivation
I'm actually studying CS, but it's more EE with a few computer related exam

just do some interesting projects, like writing a porn AI or some BS like that.

oh god you're the same retard that was on agdg that said he could draw because he read Loomis once then posted malformed heads, aren't you?

post realistic european classical portrait
or anything you've made :^)

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LMAO what is this, post your whole tumblr fam

Is it supposed to be a mangled car crash victim

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my fucking sides
please post a github if you have one

I really, really, really like this picture

send him to a code bootcamp

D-Did you stick them in your butt?

My ears were a good substitute.

There's really no universal solution.
Truth is, he either is or he isn't "STEM autist"-material, and if he isn't, no amount of coercing will make him into one.

Could he get STEM a degree and codemonkey-job if he doesn't have 'STEM-autist'-material? Of course, this is America. The question is, would you want to do that, assuming he'd be happier in a non-STEM job. (eg even a blue collar, "hands in the dirt and fixing things" Stem-ish job, that's where most kids fall) .

Not trying to sound pessimistic, but this is a general question that has no answer. You have to know (or get to know) what and whom you're working with. Education can only do so much.

Create the passion via context.
The thing is that if you want a children to see how wonderful the thing is you need to have a child who has never seen technology past the 70s/80s but that's literally impossible except if you are Amish.
Creating passion is difficult user.

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You can try what said, but if the kid has no inherent interest in that direction. You might just be wasting your and the kids time.

Lego Technics, sports, books, simply talking and playing with him.
You can't turn him into a genius, don't expose him to video games or the internet, or pop culture for that matter.

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definitely the basic, but motivation is what we are aiming for, not skill acquisition
You knew
wait til he is 10, then start bringing in the computers
(Asians start joining computer clubs at the ripe age of 8 learning BASIC and LOGO)

For Holla Forums oriented kids (yes they do exists), show them:
1. Anaconda for Statistics and basic Python Yearly crime stats
2. Django for web-dev, React/Angular for UI Make a blog/forum
3. Keras for Neural Networks, bs4 for web scraping Intel gathering
4. Teach them C, ASM and OO-languages later on if you want to

Have your own kids, leave your nephew alone.

do we really need another zuckerberg running around?

Assuming you're white: AoPS and USACO pages.

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