Originally posted by Pichu
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.