Sounds like the x.ai playbook.

Hilarious. How could that have happened?

Sounds cool, thank you :⁠-⁠)

I was working with VBA 2 summers during school as well, but that's nothing I'd have wished to start with, as it feels rather boring - imho

No Apple in this house, but thank you

Yeah, same

Started with turbo Pascal and then C, aber then C++

But I think, I had a different mindset than him.

It's just a week anyway.
Not sure what he could build, that's impressive for him, in that time

If you have a spare iPad the Swift Playgrounds app is free and fun.

Please not javascript or python. You have the right idea starting with C++ but C might be an even better place to start. 13 is old enough to comprehend the fundamentals. I learned programming on my own by starting at the top and working down, and I really regret it. Starting from the bottom and working up would have made me a much stronger programmer much sooner. I was 10 at the time and I wouldn't have been able to comprehend it all, but by 13 I would have been able, with a good teacher.

Yeah it's definitely business focused, but it's still scripting and you can see the visual impact of code. On_update functions on a worksheet also better mirrors what a software dev may be looking at.

I'm a biologist by trade, and learning VBA earned me multiple promotions at my last company, and a higher salary in my current job because I could come in and do what others would have to ask for a developer for.

on the fear part, in a healthy team the author still owns the change, the reviewer is a second pair of eyes not an insurance policy. what helped my people a lot was asking the author how they tested it and what happens if it goes wrong, if they can't answer that's your review comment right there. and if something breaks after you approved it, you fix it together and add a check so it doesn't happen again, nobody serious blames the reviewer for that

I guess it makes sense for you but not everyone here is from the west and the west has no exclusive ownership on democracy.

Yes. My thinking is that they may persue game modding on their own; if not in the near future, possibly some years down the line. You won't need to hold their hand that much if they discover a taste for it. That programming game definately wins in the short-term.

Zachlikes aren't all about coding, but most of them will get you in the mindset. My favorite of them is Infinifactory but there are ones that are literally about writing code.

For a continued theme of, essentially, visually programming, Factorio and Satisfactory are great automation games and there are lots of smaller names like them.

Duskers is an interesting game. I've only played it a little bit, but in it you use a text terminal to navigate a drone through derelict spaceships.

Most of those are not directly about coding, but they're all adjacent and can help with reaching that headspace.

Something like a raspberry pi with an activity book might be the thing, games are pretty advanced if you don’t know the basics of data handling and such.

Check how much technological research in USA is funded by the Dept of Defense... Basically all of it.

https://www.executivegov.com/articles/pentagon-funding-autonomous-weapons-hegseth-50-billion

Formalize everything into policy as code - this normally presents as PR actions. Take time to learn the PR process, but look for where there’s friction that can be collapsed or removed. Once you’re comfortable with testing solutions (linters, compilers, etc.), apply them to only your branches, and bring them to your boss as a tested solution when perfect starts to feel like the enemy of good enough.

It may be worth evaluating whether or not the DevOps path is what you want in your career as well. If it’s an opinion you’ve yet to solidify on, set clear goals with your boss in a few weeks that give you clear wickets to re-evaluate that opinion at over the next several projects or months.

I’ll give it a read, thanks.

We’re data engineers so all our code is the data layer for the most part. I do wish we had more process for code review but there’s a few reasons that isn’t super feasible, but we do definitely have knowledge silos regarding different pipelines and such. Probably I will be learning a fair bit of some processes I don’t own. Thanks for your comment!

I should mention I did have a conversation on what he expects for code review, I just like to be over prepared and decided to get more data points. He did give me some helpful input on the tendencies of the people I’ll be code reviewing which I’m sure will be valuable

That's the role of the commit title, with tags if you follow https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ standard.

99% of commit description will never be read. Only the title is usefull when you scroll to a git log.

But, for the remaining 1%, it means you ended up doing a git blame, git bisect or any funky stuff like this to troubleshot a bug. And when you find the commit that introduced the regression, written by some dude that leaved the company 5 years ago and see a description like "Add the whatever method in whatever class that do the stuff explained by the doc written in the file"... Well, thanks bro. But why did you do this ?!!!

Thanks

I'll need to try this on my system first to have some steps ready

Will probably be a decision be available free time

But yeah, I also thing the finished game should falls more in the category of "just works" and with this limited time, this is probably be better option

Hmm... Currently it is stuck with Hades and Dead Cells

But he is also a big fan Pokémon and statistics

Maybe I'll give him that option - but personally, VBA is more business than software development

Would be cool, if something moves because of his code
Something like that

That sounds very good and fun, but with 13, I think, he can stomach some real code as well

But maybe I'll combine those, because I also want to give him a rough introduction into logical gates

Maybe this is all already to much for him... We will see

Another interesting place to start could be excel formulas. If he's into any tabletop rpgs challenge him to make a character sheet using formulas and named cells. This could be a good baby step into the fundamentals of programming learning if functions and how two objects interact in code. Once he has that, add an initiative tracker using VBA.

Another game to challenge his logical skills is Baba is You. It can really help put someone in a programming mindset.

If you're not familiar, you are this little sheep, Baba, and on each level there are blocks that correspond to game states. When you push them together you change the object properties of you or the environment to solve the level. For example there may be lava between you and the goal, and the blocks "lava" "is" "dead" tucked in a corner. Then you have a "not" block hanging out somewhere that you have to replace "is" with, to make the phrase "lava not dead" thereby turning off the lethality of the lava and letting you walk across it.