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Meh, already saw this.

The kid has what many kids do not, parents with money and the ability to focus and get help on what he likes doing. He's smart none-the-less but I feel as though if many kids were given the same chance as him, this whole thing about being a "prodigy" at his skill level would go away fairly quickly and it would become a norm.

It's already been shown, kids who grow up and begin learning and understand to think as a programmer learn to think methodically and tend to develop mentally better, in an intellectual sense, than those who do not.

I agree 100% with you.

Did you see all his Apple stuff though

He claims to know a bunch of languages, although throughout the video all I really saw him coding in was objective-c for apple products.

What I am going to assume by languages is he knows:

Html, CSS, Javascript, XML, Objective-C <-- All of that would be useful for developing apple programs 5 languages right there.
C, C++, java, VB.NET, Python, Assembly, Ruby... there is 12 languages.

HTML, CSS, Javascript can be combined into HTML5. XML is more of a structural language. In a sense, for apple products, HTML5, XML, and Objective-C are what you really should know.

1 hour every day = 365 hours learning programming languages. He was in 6th grade, I was in 6th grade when I was 11. 3 years = over 1,000 hours working on languages. It's obvious that he has spent more time than that, he has had the books and the resources to learn and it's likely that he has been able to focus on it unlike many kids where they have to focus on school, help their parents, or get jobs.

When I hear about this stuff, it actually pisses me off because it's not a prodigy I see, I see a kid who has something more than others and has taken advantage of it.

I saw this, it's always posted as a troll. People give attention to the most stupid of things nowadays.

This is fucking crzy

Someone else posted this before not sure if it was a thread but i think it was in the SB, wish i could do what he can:fa:

We're going to see this kid on the Forbes list in a few years, just you wait.

Holy shit! 17 when he finishes his masters degree in college? DAMN! This kids going to be working for like Microsoft or Apple as a Software Engineer probably by the age of 18-19. I didn't watch the full video because I didn't have time, but I would guess he's going to work for Apple. However, there are some places there you can work for Microsoft in Colorado and right around that area too.