Comment Laissez faire (Score 1) 704
Let him follow his natural course, the kid is only 14 years old. I highly doubt pushing him in a direction will do anything more than stir up a rebellion. If he's programming minded, he'll naturally gravitate in that direction.
When I was his age, I played video games all the time. What caused me to start programming was the need to create a webpage for my clan. From there it was a blur of ASP to PHP to linux. Eventually it lead to playing with source code to a few open source games, and making a few mods of my own. When I got to college I had a huge head start in Computer Science.
If he's programming minded, he'll find his way. There's no need to rush things. Last thing we all need is more incompetent programmers that should have ended up as business majors.
When I was his age, I played video games all the time. What caused me to start programming was the need to create a webpage for my clan. From there it was a blur of ASP to PHP to linux. Eventually it lead to playing with source code to a few open source games, and making a few mods of my own. When I got to college I had a huge head start in Computer Science.
If he's programming minded, he'll find his way. There's no need to rush things. Last thing we all need is more incompetent programmers that should have ended up as business majors.